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• Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- The Reason of Church Government, Introduction, Book ii...
• By labour and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life)
  joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after times as they should not willingly let it die....
• But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, Maturest counsels.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ii, Line 112...
• The Poet Whose Badness Saved His Life The most important poet in the seventeenth century was George Wither.
  Alexander Pope called him "wretched Wither" and Dryden said of his verse that "if they rhymed and rattled all was well"....
• His red right hand. -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ii, Line 174
• Indu'd With sanctity of reason. -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book vii, Line 507
• Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ii, Line 845...
• Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book v, Line 658...
• Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ix, Line 239...