"I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, …"

"O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death."

"No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free."

"The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love him, and to imitate him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue."

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