The best thing for being sad ... is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you… - T. H. White

The best thing for being sad ... is to learn something.

"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlyn, "is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails."

"The best cure for grief is learning".

The best thing for being sad is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails.

He loved Arthur and he loved Guenever and he hated himself. The best knight of the world: everybody envied the self-esteem which must surely be his. But Lancelot never believed he was good or nice. Under the grotesque, magnificent shell with a face like Quasimodo's, there was shame and self-loathing which had been planted there when he was tiny, by something which it is now too late to trace.

The plain of Bedegraine was a forest of pavilions. They looked like old-fashioned bathing tents, and were every colour of the rainbow. ... There were heraldic devices worked or stamped on the sides ... Then there were pennons floating from the tops of the tents, and sheaves of spears leaning against them. The more sporting barons had shields or huge copper basins outside their front doors, and all you had to do was to give a thump on one of these with the butt-end of your spear, for the baron to come out like an angry bee and have a fight with you, almost before the resounding boom had died away. Sir Dinadain, who was a cheerful man, had hung a chamber-pot outside his.

But his heart had been made as a match for Elaine's, and now it was unable to bear the burden which hers had been forced to lay down.