Yes, this man who, had he been beaten in December, could have escaped the death penalty only by the omnipotence of progress, and by an enlargement, too liberal certainly, of the principle that human life is sacred; this man, this Louis Bonaparte, this prince who carries the practices of Poulmann and Soufflard into politics, he it is who rebuilds the scaffold!
"Napoleon the Little"
Victor Hugo
Again and again-as the spider in some cell where no winged insect ever wanders, builds and rebuilds his mesh,-the scheming heart of the Idealist was doomed to weave net after net for those visions of the Lovely and the Perfect which can never descend to the gloomy regions wherein mortality is cast.
"Godolphin, Volume 2."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
He alone rebuilds the shattered Jerusalem of our souls.
"Chopin: The Man and His Music"
James Huneker