The best thing for being sad, is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails ... Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.

It seems, in tragedy, that innocence is not enough.

It is good to put your life in other people's hands.

Yes, that is the equality of man. Slaughter anybody who is better than you are, and then we shall be equal soon enough. All equally dead.

Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return.

I will tell you something else, King, which may be a surprise for you. It will not happen for hundreds of years, but both of us are to come back.

Only fools want to be great.