My wealth is my shelf of books! - Jack Vance

Damned meddlers. It’s hard to know when their curiosity is official and when it’s just curiosity.

Often their grievances were real; often they complained from sheer petulance.

If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another’s mind.