The simple fact that something has not been done, is no proof that it cannot be.

Every cataclysm is welcomed by somebody; there is always someone to rejoice at disaster and see in it the prospect of a new beginning and a better world.

He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it.

For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away.

For what are we but our past? If that is lost, we become nothing.

In my small way, I preserved and catalogued, and dipped into the vast ocean of learning that awaited, knowing all the time that the life of one man was insufficient for even the smallest part of the wonders that lay within. It is cruel that we are granted the desire to know, but denied the time to do so properly. We all die frustrated; it is the greatest lesson we have to learn.

The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind." (Marco)