For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them ; they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them."

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven a hell, a hell a heaven."

"Th'invention all admir'd, and each, how he To be th'inventor miss'd; so easy it seem'd once found, which yet unfound most would have thought impossible."

It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.

"Who overcomes
By force, hath overcome but half his foe."