Evil Cannot Be Conquered By Wishing.

Evil Conquered?' Said Gwydion. 'you Have Learned Much, But Learn This Last And Hardest Of Lessons. You Have Conquered Only The Enchantments Of Evil. That Was The Easiest Of Your Tasks, Only A Beginning, Not An Ending. Do You Believe Evil Itself To Be So Quickly Overcome? Not So Long As Men Still Hate And Slay Each Other, When Greed And Anger Goad Them. Against These Even A Flaming Sword Cannot Prevail, But Only That Portion Of Good In All Men's Hearts Whose Flame Can Never Be Quenched.

Miss Vesper Holly Has The Digestive Talents Of A Goat And The Mind Of A Chess Master. She Is Familiar With Half A Dozen Languages And Can Swear Fluently In All Of Them. She Understands The Use Of A Slide Rule But Prefers Doing Calculations In Her Head. She Does Not Hesitate To Risk Life And Limb- Mine As Well As Her Own. No Doubt She Has Other Qualities As Yet Undiscovered. I Hope Not.

I Intend To Follow The Path Of Virtue. It Will Not Be Overcrowded.

Stale Water Is A Poor Drink. Stale Skill Is Worse. And The Man Who Walks In His Own Footsteps Only Ends Where He Began.

The Point Is Not To Look Back, But To Look Ahead To What You Hope Still To Do.