The great in Evil, and the great in [Goodness|Good]]—both leave an immortal residue. - Michael Shea

And you could see at a glance that Defalk was a simple man who wanted no more than to be brilliantly rich, admired, and unencumbered with work. His face said it so plainly: “I’m an excellent fellow. Isn’t such a life no more than my proper portion?”

And I make bold to say that I am not the only one of my countrymen who could profit from taking this admonition to heart.

The assumption that we would ever be called upon to perform this second task now appeared quite clearly to me as the most extravagant folly, based on a wild delusion conceived by a raving idiot.