John Milton — "What boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, …"

"For what can be more unjust than to throw the blame of a bad cause upon the fault of the first man?"

"And in the lowest deep a lower deep still threatening to devour me opens wide, to which the hell I suffer seems a heaven."

"Lest we should be too much elated with our successes, or too much dejected by our misfortunes."

"To be still searching what we know not, by what we know, still closing up truth to truth as we find it (for all her body is homogeneal, and proportional), this is the golden rule in theology as well a…"

"You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It's all in the mind."