John Milton

"To bless and curse, damn or approve."

"In the fortress of the mind."

"If worse there be, to worse."

"The tyranny of fear."

"Forever shall endure."

"By winning hearts which hostile acts repel."

"Bright effluence of bright essence increate."

"All nature smiles, and every sense laughs out."

"Within the temple of the mind itself."

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

"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."

"All is not lost; the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and courage never to submit or yield."

"Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven."

"The mind is the measure of the man."

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends."

"He who overcomes himself is greater than he who takes a city."

"Solitude sometimes is best society, and short retirement urges sweet return."

"To justify the ways of God to men requires great wisdom and patience."

"The fall of man was not merely a fall from grace, but an opportunity for redemption."

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."

"Time is the substance I am made of; time is a river which sweeps me along."

"A poet's soul is the mirror of creation itself."

"Knowledge freely shared is knowledge doubled."

"The greatest achievement is not in never falling, but in rising after each fall."

"Fate is but the shadow of divine will."

"To see the world in a grain of sand is the vision of true understanding."

"Liberty is the birthright of all thinking creatures."

"What we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased."

"The voice of reason is often drowned out by the noise of passion."