Things done the hard way aren’t necessarily done better. Nor are they done badly because done the easy way. The essence of progress consists of findi… - Wasp

I give up. I cannot argue with someone who casts aside the accepted rules of logic and invents ones of his own.

I was thinking," Harrison explained.
"I approve of that," put in His Excellency. He lugged a couple of huge tomes our of the wall-shelves, began to thumb rapidly through them. "Do plenty of thinking whenever you've the chance and it will become a habit. It will get easier and easier as time rolls on. In fact, a day may come when it can be done without pain.

On my world we’re old, incredibly old, and we’ve learned a lot from a past which is long and lurid. We’ve had empires by the dozens, though none as great as yours. They all went the same way—down the sinkhole. They all vanished for the same fundamental and inevitable reasons. Empires come and empires go, but little men go on forever.