"The
best thing for being sad," replied Merlyn, "is to learn something. That
is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your
anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your
veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated
by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds.
There is only one thing for it then--to learn." The Once and Future King |