Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
John MiltonI on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.
John MiltonBehold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection.
John Milton