It is the custom of all men, everywhere, to be obtuse where women are concerned. - Murray Leinster

Again time passed. In one of the remoter galaxies a supernova flamed, and on a rocky, barren world a small living thing squirmed experimentally—and to mankind the one event was just as important as the other.

This was the second time in his life he’d been on a horse. It was two too many.

A practical man can always make what he wants to do look like a noble sacrifice of personal inclinations to the welfare of the community.