“In Hell you become what you fear yourself to be. In Heaven you may become what you hope yourself to be,” said Lucifer. - Michael Moorcock

“I have heard it said it is often safer to dwell in the lion’s lair than outside it,” Oladahn said.
“Safer still to live in a land where there are no lions,” Count Brass retorted.

Their glory in earthly power had brought them to decadent ruin, as it brought down all empires who gloried in gold or conquest or those other ambitions which can never be satisfied but must forever be fed.

It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.