John Milton — "Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling…"

"The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate."

"The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n."

"Truth, indeed, came once into the world with her divine master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on: but when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose…"

"The world was all before them, where to choose their place of rest, and providence their guide."

"But O, the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone, and never must return!"