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• Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book x, Line 77...
• For which cause men may well perceive that the land and the sea are of round shape and form, for the portion of the firmament that shows itself in one country does not show itself in another country.
  And men may well prove by experience and subtle exercise of wit that if a man should find routes by ship that would go to search the world, men might go by ship all about the world and around and beneath it....
• Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
  Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe....
• There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book viii, Line 21...
• And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Il Penseroso, Line 45...
• Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book viii, Line 173...
• Or if Sion hill Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook, that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book i, Line 10...
• Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, Nods and Becks and wreathed Smiles.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- L'Allegro, Line 25...
• Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?--thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book xi, Line 269...