“High on a throne of royal state, which far”

“Sin has sprung from a royal though evil stock, and if it be in the heart, it will struggle for the throne.”

“The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it”

“In ancient Greece more than one royal house was guilty of crime which became the stuff of tragedy: now Rome was to follow the same path - but not in vain; for that very guilt was to hasten the coming of liberty and the hatred of kings, and to ensure that the throne it won should never again be occupied.”

“Then I have an ivory chair high to sit upon, Almost like my father's chair, which is an ivory throne; There I sit uplift and upright, there I sit alone.”

“I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.”