If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo

Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.

That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

...know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.

I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.

It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once records the name of the chosen one and recommends him to the admiration of posterity.