John Milton

"Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold."

"By labor and intent study , 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."

"None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license."

"By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a cl…"

"Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day."

"Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law."

"The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him."

"Ornate rhetoric thought out of the rule of Plato... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less subtle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate."