"That old man, as you say, who is blind and poor, or, to use your own words, 'blind, poor, and an outcast,' is a person who, on the contrary, is rich, and content with his lot, and far from being an ou…"

"He who marries a wife, and knows not how to rule her, is like him who takes a wild beast into his house, and knows not how to tame it."

"And in the lowest deep a lower deep still threatening to devour me opens wide, to which the hell I suffer seems a heaven."

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

"Yet much remains To conquer still; peace hath her victories No less renown'd than war."