If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.

Laws can discover sin, but not remove it

Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.

I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.

The gay motes that people the sunbeams.

Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.

Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem: other creature here Beast, bird, insect, or worm durst enter none; Such was their awe of man.