"He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon."

"I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words."

"The goal of all learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents."

"To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night. From his watchtower in the skies Til the dappled dawn doth rise."

"None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence."

"When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for."

"No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free."

"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."

"Where no hope is left is left no fear."

"Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind."

"Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world."

"Grace was in all her steps heaven in her eye In every gesture dignity and love."

"Servant of God well done! Well hast thou fought The better fight."

"Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung."

"Since good the more Communicated more abundant grows."

"He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well."

"I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public, of peace and war."

"The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby."

"Neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible except to God alone."

"Yet not so strictly hath our Lord impos'd /Labor, as to debar when we need /Refreshment, whether food, or talk between,/ food of the mind, or this sweet intercourse/Of looks and smiles, for smiles from Reason flow,/To brutes denied, and are of Love the food, Love not the lowest end of human life. For not to irksome toil, but to delight/ He made us, and delight to reason join'd."

"To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable."

"Wickedness is weakness."

"Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end."

"Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness."

"Deep versed in books and shallow in himself."

"For Man to tell how human life began is hard, for who himself beginning knew?"

"Come let us haste, the stars grow high, But night sits monarch yet in the mid sky."

"Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship."

"Th' unconquerable will,/ And study of revenge, immortal hate,/ And courage never to submit or yield/ And what is else not to be overcome?"

"A grateful mind by owing owes not, but still pays, at once indebted and discharged; what burden then?"

"For what can war, but endless war, still breed?"

"Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right."

"The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven."

"Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk."

"Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live."

"Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self."

"The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller."

"Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven."

"Be strong, live happy and love, but first of allHim whom to love is to obey, and keepHis great command!"

"So spake the Seraph Abdiel faithful found,Among the faithless, faithful only hee;Among innumerable false, unmov'd,Unshak'n, unseduc'd, unterrifi'dHis Loyaltie he kept, his Love, his Zeale;Nor number, nor example with him wroughtTo swerve from truth, or change his constant mindThough single. From amidst them forth he passd,Long way through hostile scorn, which he susteindSuperior, nor of violence fear'd aught;And with retorted scorn his back he turn'dOn those proud Towrs to swift destruction doom'd."

"A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold,And pavement stars-as starts to thee appearSoon in the galaxy, that milky wayWhich mightly as a circling zone thou seestPowder'd wiht stars."

"What hath night to do with sleep?"

"Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth."

"So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream, and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal."

"A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit."

"Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself."

"Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep..."

"For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them."

"Immortal amarant, a flower which onceIn paradise, fast by the tree of life,Began to bloom; but soon for man's offenceTo heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows,And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life,And where the river of bliss through midst of heavenRolls o'er elysian flowers her amber stream:With these that never fade the spirits electBind their resplendent locks."

"Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe."