I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.

A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars,--as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd with stars.

'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.

So dear I love him, that with him, all deaths I could endure, without him, live no life.

Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost.

Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow.