No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused - Charles Dickens

At last, however, he began to think — as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . .

The dignity of his office is never impaired by the absence of efforts on his part to maintain it.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.