You are Joseph the dreamer of dreams, dear Jude. And a tragic Don Quixote. And sometimes you are St. Stephen, who, while they were stoning him, could see Heaven opened. Oh, my poor friend and comrade, you'll suffer yet!
Jude the Obscure, with an Etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn and a Map of Wessex (ed. 1896)