'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.
Solitude is sometimes the best society.
Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day.
Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all.
His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.
Evil, be thou my good.