John Milton

"Labour well the minute particulars."

"What is the worst death can do? The worst is only to restore us to the God we love."

"Our torment also may in length of time become our element."

"Aspiring to be justly ranked with the greatest poets."

"Darkness there and nothing more."

"How gladly would I meet mortality my sentence, and be earth in earth."

"To serve is to reign, to obey is to rule."

"Among unequals what society can sort, what harmony or true delight?"

"Creation sleeps; 'tis as the floated wreck when winds and waves have done their worst."

"Confidence then bore thee on secure with the other hand that kept the thunder back."

"Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, live well."

"The strongest and fiercest spirit that fought in Heaven."

"From bad to worse."

"Gratitude is the memory of the heart."

"What mighty contests rise from trivial things."

"Hell is paved with good intentions."

"By weakness and defeat, to conquer Satan."

"The serpent, subtlest beast of all the field."

"Peace from strength and strength from peace."

"In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God."

"The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."

"O fairest of creation, last and best of all God's works."

"Love all God's creation, the whole of it and every grain of sand."

"Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home."

"Awake, arise, or be forever fallen."

"The mind's the standard of the man."

"In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed."

"But he who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king."

"Nature never wears the same expression twice."

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