The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.

- John Milton

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.

- John Milton

Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.

- John Milton

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

- John Milton

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

- John Milton

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

- John Milton

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

- John Milton

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

- John Milton

Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.

- John Milton

He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.

- John Milton

Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.

- John Milton

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

- John Milton

They also serve who only stand and wait.

- John Milton

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

- John Milton

Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.

- John Milton

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

- John Milton

Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.

- John Milton

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.

- John Milton

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

- John Milton

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

- John Milton