Gilbert Parker

“ They were alone, and very like Elizabeth showed to this young refugee more of her own heart than any other woman had ever seen. Not by words, for she said naught; but once she stooped and kissed Angèle upon the cheek, and once her eyes filled up with tears, and they dropped upon her lap unheeded. All the devotion shown herself as a woman had come to naught, and it may be that this thought stirred in her, and she remembered how Essex and herself had parted, and how she was denied all those soft resources of regret which were the right of the meanest women in her realm. ”

“ That which ye love ye shall teach, and that which ye teach ye shall defend; and if your love be a true love your teaching shall be a great teaching, and your sword a strong sword which none may with stand, the pride of sovereign and people; and then neither 'height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God.’"
Ere he had ended, some of the ladies were weeping, the eyes of the Duke's Daughter were full of tears, and Elizabeth said audibly, when he had ceased speaking: "On my soul, I have no bishop with a tongue like his. ”

“ For the Book is the sword of the Spirit, and the sword is the book of humanity; for all faith must be fought for, and all that is has been won by strife! But the paths wherein ye go to battle must be the old paths, your staff shall be your sword by day, and your lantern by night the Book. ”