Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.

I think your vision gets better as you get older.

There is an advantage to be found in most everything that happens to you, even if it is not immediately apparent.

I struggled for a long time to get anything published.

There is a ghost here. A lonely, heartbroken spirit. The ghost of everything that could've been and never was.

Funny, 'ow you can 'old a jewel in your 'and, and toss it away, and not even know what you 'ad until it's gone.

Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?