And yet on the other hand unless warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature, Gods Image, but hee who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe, kills the Image of God, as it were in the eye.

When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation. For what do terms used without skill or meaning, which are at once corrupt and misapplied, denote but a people listless, supine, and ripe for servitude?

It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark.

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.

Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation.