Mr Pollexfen was at one and the same time right and wrong—a condition much more common than is generally supposed. - Rafael Sabatini

You have changed a certainty into a possibility, and I hate possibilities — God of God! I have lived on possibilities, and infernally near starved on them.

It was heroic!
"Heroic, is it? Bedad, it's epic! Ye begin to perceive the breadth and depth of my genius."

When we know all of whatever it may be, we can never do anything but forgive, madame. That is the profoundest religious truth that was ever written. It contains, in fact, a whole religion—the noblest religion any man could have to guide him.