Quotes from John Milton

No war or battle sound Was heard the world around.

Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.

And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

What is strength without a double share of wisdom?

The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.

Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.

As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?

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.

In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.

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.

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.

When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all regal powers, he then, in the single person of a man, fights against his own majesty and kingship.

Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.

Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men...

And govern well thy appetite, lest Sin Surprise thee, and her black attendant, Death.

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep...

Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

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 the eye.

Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heav'n on all his ways.

Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.