“ What needs my for his honoured bones,The labor of an age in pilèd stones,Or that his hallowed relics should be hidUnder a star-y-pointing pyramid?Dear son of memory, great heir of fame,What need'st t… John Milton
“ I fear yet this iron yoke of outward conformity hath left a slavish print upon our necks: the ghost of a linnen decency yet haunts us. John Milton
“ How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! John Milton
“ Ye cannot make us now lesse capable, lesse knowing, lesse eagarly pursuing of the Truth, unlesse ye first make yourselves that made us so, lesse the lovers, lesse the founders of our true Liberty. We… John Milton
“ Celestial light, shine inward...that I may see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight John Milton
“ Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship. John Milton
“ Give me the liberty to know to think to believe and to utter freely according to conscience above all other liberties. John Milton
“ Many a man lives a burden to the Earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. John Milton
“ He who thinks we are to pitch our tent here, and have attained the utmost prospect of reformation that the mortal glass wherein we contemplate can show us, till we come to beatific vision, that man by… John Milton
