John Milton
Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.Collection: Truth
The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.Collection: Space
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.Collection: Thankful
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.Collection: Beauty
When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.Collection: Men
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.Collection: Death
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.Collection: Freedom
For what can war, but endless war, still breed?Collection: War
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.
They also serve who only stand and wait.
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.
Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.
No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.
Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.
The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.Collection: Happiness
The best apology against false accusers is silence.Collection: Apology
The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.Collection: Love
There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.Collection: Strong
Solitude sometimes is best society.Collection: Solitude
Where no hope is left, is left no fear.Collection: Inspirational
Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.Collection: Truth
When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man's imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.Collection: Encouraging
Every cloud has a silver lining.Collection: Inspirational
For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.Collection: Men
Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.Collection: Darkness
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.Collection: Love
This is servitude, To serve the unwise.Collection: Unwise
You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It's all in the mind.Collection: Inspirational
Fame is the last infirmity of the human mind.Collection: Mind
Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.Collection: Lonely
Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.Collection: Sympathy
Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden.Collection: Marriage
Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.Collection: Power
Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.Collection: Learning
Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.Collection: Book