"Behold the kings of the Earth how they oppress Thy chosen, to what highth thir pow'r unjust They have exalted, and behind them cast All fear of thee, arise and vindicate Thy Glory, free thy people from thir yoke"

"Be frustrate, all ye stratagems of Hell, And devilish machinations come to nought."

"They looking back, all th' Eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late thir happie seat, Wav'd over by that flaming Brand, the Gate With dreadful Faces throng'd and fierie Armes: Som natural tears they drop'd, but wip'd them soon; The World was all before them, where to choose Thir place of rest, and Providence thir guide: They hand in hand with wandring steps and slow, Through EDEN took thir solitarie way."

"To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven."

"The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n."

"And chiefly Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant: What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the highth of this great Argument I may assert th' Eternal Providence, And justifie the wayes of God to men."

"Attic tragedies of stateliest and most regal argument."

"In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out, and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth."

"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."

"Inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages."

"I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming."

"Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees."

"The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents."

"At last he rose, and twitched his mantle blue: Tomorrow to fresh woods and pastures new."

"He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay."

"Where Nature’s end of language is declin’d, And men talk only to conceal the mind."

"The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven’s blessing thinks himself undone."

"Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair."

"None think the great unhappy but the great."

"They that on glorious ancestors enlarge, Produce their debt instead of their discharge."

"Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies."

"Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote."

"The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart."

"When the Law shows her teeth, but dares not bite."

"And friend received with thumps upon the back."

"There buds the promise of celestial worth."

"Time elaborately thrown away."

"Accept a miracle instead of wit,— See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ."

"He weeps! the falling drop puts out the sun; He sighs! the sigh earth's deep foundation shakes. If in His love so terrible, what then His wrath inflamed?"

"Too low they build who build beneath the stars."

"As Love alone can exquisitely bless, Love only feels the marvellous of pain; Opens new veins of torture in the soul, And wakes the nerve where agonies are born."

"Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt, And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt."

"The man that makes a character makes foes."

"In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things."

"The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear."

"Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue."

"Life is the desert, life the solitude; Death joins us to the great majority."

"Great let me call him, for he conquered me."

"Ah! what is human life? How, like the dial's tardy-moving shade, Day after day slides from us unperceiv'd! The cunning fugitive is swift by stealth; Too subtle is the movement to be seen; Yet soon the hour is up—and we are gone."

"In records that defy the tooth of time."

"Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth."

"Respect is what we owe; love what we give."

"Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from hell."

"How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!"

"Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones Forget not."

"Non est miserum esse caecum, miserum est caecitatem non posse ferre."

"Who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best: his state Is kingly; thousands at his bidding speed, And post o'er land and ocean without rest; They also serve who only stand and wait."

"When I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless."

"Peace hath her victories No less renowned than war."