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.

The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.

Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.

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

To adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood.