Quotes from John Milton

He also serves who only stands and waits.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

Life is not about what we see, it is about the way it goes.

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

Reason also is choice.

So spake the fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.

There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

What does not destroy me makes me strong.

For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

Solitude sometimes is best society.

Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.

Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss