"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…"

"God gave him reason, and he gave him choice; and now he blames God for his own choice."

"Such as the world has known, in all her pomp, her pride, and her oppression."

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

"For what can war but acts of war produce? And what can acts of war but wars breed?"