“Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.”

“Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.”

“Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim; it depends on if the conquering army likes to read.”

“She’d never been any kind of camper, never had been good at relieving a full bladder on a whim. Never had quite figured out that squat; it seemed like she’d always wet her right foot.”

“Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is always allowed to it in theory; for while every one well knows himself to be fallible, few think it necessary to take any precautions against their own fallibility. ”

“So one always starts a journey in a strange land -- taking too many precautions, until one tires of the exertion and abandons care in the worst spot of all.”