The best thing for being sad ... is to learn something. - T. H. White

He did not see a hero of romance, but a plain man who had done his best — not a leader of chivalry, but the pupil who had tried to be faithful to his curious master, the magician, by thinking all the time — not Arthur of England, but a lonely old gentleman who had worn his crown for half a lifetime in the teeth of fate.

Wrongs have to be redressed by reason, not by force.

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.