The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
John Milton
The best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.
John Milton
Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.
John Milton
Sweet the coming on / Of grateful evening mild; then silent night / With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, / And these the gems of heaven, her starry train.
John Milton
How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.
John Milton
He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.
John Milton