Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.

For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power.

Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.

Where all life dies death lives.

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.

It is not good that man should be alone. ... Hitherto all things that have been named, were approved of God to be very good: loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good: whether it be a thing, or the want of something, I labour not.