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.
Paradise Lost
Areopagitica (While profound, the elaborate metaphor and almost medicinal description of books can be seen as witty in its earnestness)
1644
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"Lords are not to be trusted with the liberty of their own consciences, so little with the liberty of ours."
Controversial"How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns."
Humorous"For neither can we be in health, or have a sound mind, unless we are temperate."
Strange & Unusual"Solitude sometimes is best society."
Controversial"Truth…Let her and falsehood grapple. Who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?"
Shocking