When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.

'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.

Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named.

The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.

Such sober certainty of waking bliss.