Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
I'm a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.
We learn from failure, not from success!
Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker