" And I should have assumed that this father of Swann’s had been a monster if my grandfather, whom I regarded as a better judge than myself, and whose word was my law and often led me in the long run to pardon offences which I should have been inclined to condemn, had not gone on to exclaim, “But, after all, he had a heart of gold. "

― Rabindranath Tagore , 100 Books You Must Read Before You Die - Volume 2 (The Greatest Writers of All Time)