Status Updates From Lost Horizon

The first quarter century of your life was doubtless lived under the cloud of being too young for things while the last quarter century would normally be shadowed by the still darker cloud of being too old for them, in between these two clouds what small and narrow sunlight illumines the human lifetime!

But you see, we believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.

Chang replied that crime was very rare, partly because only serious things were considered crimes, and partly because everyone enjoyed a sufficiency of everything he could reasonably desire.