Quotes by John Milton

• He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
• Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.
• When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
• Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
• Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
• True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
• Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.
• The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
• The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
• The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
• Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
• None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
• No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
• Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
• Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.
• To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
• He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
• He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.
• Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
• Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
• For what can war, but endless war, still breed?
• Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.
• Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
• 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.
• Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
• Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
• A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.
• Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
• They also serve who only stand and wait.
• The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
• Creativity is letting Jove know what you done with his cosmos.