“Why a man should have great strengths and great weakness I do not understand. For the first call him to honour, and the second to dishonour; and the first to fame and the second to destruction” (pg 4).

“The light of the body is the eye, and when the eye is true then is the body full of light, but when the eye is evil, then is the body dark” (pg 28).

“A word from you is twice as severe because it comes from you” (pg 35).

“ . . . for the black moods and the angers and the cold withdrawals that robbed her of the simple joys of her quiet and humble life” (pg 86).