Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.
John MiltonCome to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.
John MiltonHere the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
John MiltonNext, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the love of virtue and true labour, ere any flattering seducement or vain principle seize them wandering, some easy and delightful book of education would be read to them; whereof the Greeks have store, as Cebes, Plutarch, and other Socratic discourses.
John Milton