It’s a basic tenet of military science. No stronghold can be taken if a mule laden with gold bars can leave it unobserved. - Tom Holt

He had the answer to the secret of the universe in his hands, but he was more interested in saving his own neck and making money. Extraordinary man.

At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance

The doctrine of sides," he went on, "states that there is no right or wrong, only different perspectives. From where I stand, such and such a thing looks like a tree; from where you stand, it looks like a rock. For tree and rock, read sin and virtue.