John Milton

"What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted?"

"To be thus is nothing but to be thus seen."

"Justice will not sleep, and neither can the just."

"Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appear."

"Who can map out the range and pasture wide of love?"

"There is in souls a sympathy with sounds."

"The sun grows pale before the fires within."

"In my beginning is my end, yet in my end is my beginning."

"What boots it with incessant care to tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade?"

"Good deeds, like prayers, work best in silence."

"The unwise sacrifice the present for the future."

"None can love freedom heartily but good men."

"When the grass is greener in the distant field, remember the soil beneath your feet."

"Modesty is the silken thread that runs through the pearl of virtue."

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."

"The art of governing is the art of discovering what men think."

"Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part; do thou but thine."

"In silence there is eloquence; in listening, wisdom."

"Taste this, and be henceforth among the blessed."

"Much is demanded from those to whom much is given."

"The narrow gate admits the righteous few."

"Reason is but choosing; to choose aright is to be free."

"What though the field be lost? All is not lost."

"In the deepest solitude is found the deepest connection."

"Cowards die in their imagination many times."

"The greatest song is that which none have heard."

"When tempests rage, the steadfast tree endures."

"Avarice is the root of all that grows in darkness."

"Peace is the nurse of human labor and commerce."

"What lies beyond the veil of mortal sight?"