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

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

But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, 4 to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.

Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.

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

He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

We should be wary what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books, since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom; and if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at the ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself; slays an immortality rather than a life.