"He knew that the eyes of all Europe were upon him."

"For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and e…"

"To be blind is not miserable; but to be incapable of enduring blindness, that is miserable."

"To be more than man, is not to be man."

"He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires, and fears, is more than a king."