Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!
Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.
Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.
The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.
'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.