Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge .

There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness, which in a thousand outward and intermitting crosses may yet be done well, as in this vale of tears.

Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.

Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.

Hide me from day's garish eye.