Consult.../what reinforcement we may gain from hope, /If not, what resolution from despair.

— John Milton

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

— John Milton

Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.

— John Milton

Deep-versed in books And shallow in himself.

— John Milton

Even the demons are encouraged when their chief is "not lost in loss itself.

— John Milton

Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear

— John Milton

Father, I do acknowledge and confess That I this honor, I this pomp has brought To Dagon, and advance’d his praises high among the Heathen round; to God have brought Dishonor, obloquy, and op’d the mouths Of Idealists, and Atheists[…] The anguish of my Soul, that suffers not Mine eye to harbor sleep, or thoughts to rest. This only hope relieves me, that the strife With me hath end.

— John Milton

Flowers of all hues and without thorn the rose.

— John Milton

For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

— John Milton

For books are not absolutely dead things, but... do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand unless warriors be used, as good almost kill a Man a good Book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills Reason itself, kills the Image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the Earth; but a good Book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. John MiltonAreopagitica

— John Milton