Quotes from John Milton

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.

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.

Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

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

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

Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell explores his solitary flight.

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

For neither Man nor Angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone, By his permissive will, through Heaven and Earth: 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...

Grace was in all her steps heaven in her eye In every gesture dignity and love.

The work under our labour grows, luxurious by restraint.

Hide me from day's garish eye, while the bee with honied thigh, that at her flowery work doth sing, and the waters murmuring with such consort as they keep, entice the dewy-feathered sleep.

Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.