The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. - Thomas Carlyle

This is the end of Prime Minister, Cardinal Archbishop Lomenie de Brienne. Flimsier mortal was seldom fated to do as weighty a mischief; to have a life as despicable-envied, an exit as frightful. Fired, as the phrase is, with ambition: blown, like a kindled rag, the sport of winds, not this way, not that way, but of all ways, straight towards such a powder-mine, — which he kindled! Let us pity the hapless Lomenie; and forgive him; and, as soon as possible, forget him.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.

Man is a tool-using animal...Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.