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Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

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What needs my Shakespeare for his honored bones The labor of an age in piled stones?...

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Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.

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Triumphing over Death, and Chance, and thee O Time.

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With thee conversing I forget all time.

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'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity. She that has that is clad in complete steel, and like a quivered nymph with arrows keen may trace huge forests and unharbored heaths, infamous hills and sandy perilous wilds, where through the sacred rays of chastity, no savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer will dare to soil her virgin purity.

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Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.

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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.

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Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge.

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Here at last We shall be free; the Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.

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Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was veiled; yet to my fancied sight...

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Here at lastWe shall be freethe Almighty hath not builtHere for his envy, will not drive us henceHere we may reign secure, and in my choiceTo reign is worth ambition though in HellBetter to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.

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Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault thus guiltless be condemned,...

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What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

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Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never-sere,...

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So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.

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Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

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Into thir inmost bower Handed they went; and eas'd the putting off...

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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.

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How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year

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