Luck.

"I say!" said Aravis. "I have had luck."

"Daughter," said the Hermit. "I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is something about all this that I do not understand: but if ever we need to know it, you may be sure that we shall."

-C. S. Lewis

Chapter X, The Horse and His Boy

The King and the Fool.

I visited a certain king

Who had a certain fool.

The king was gray with wisdom got

From forty years of school.

The fool was pink with nonsense

And could barely write his name

But he knew a lot of little songs

And sang them just the same.

The fool was gay. The king was not.

Now tell me if you can:

Which was perhaps the greater fool

And which, the wiser man?

-Natalie Babbitt

-Kneeknock Rise