Quotes from John Milton

Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great command!

I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.

Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most? That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are lost? That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain? That the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain?

So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good.

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow?

I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public, of peace and war.

The goal of all learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents.

Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.

Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.

If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.

O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings.