“I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.”
“I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.”
“He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.”
“I'm more than the flesh and bone that defines me. More than the pain that consumes me and the madness radiating through me. I am a man. And I am still alive...”
“I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.”
“I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.”