To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting

One must gauge one's trust carefully.

I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie.

Sidonie, I know you don't remember it, but you once promised to trust me beyond all reason. And I swear to you that all that I am, all that I possess, including this gem-stone, is yours. I need you. I can't do this alone. Forget your memories. Look into your heart. And if you can find somewhere there, some lingering spark of trust that owes naught to reason, I beg you to speak the word written here.

Genius requires an audience.

This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.

My lord. It is too much, and not enough