John Milton — "Th' associates and co-partners of our loss."

"For neither was it fit the Lord of all things Should be unhonour'd, and his works not sung."

"As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in th…"

"To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering."

"Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature."

"Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for knowledge is as food, and needs no less variety than appetite."