The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.

Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it. (pg. 231)

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.

Popularity? It's glory's small change.

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.