"The mind is its own place, and in itself
can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
— John Milton (Paradise Lost)

"Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven."
— John Milton (Paradise Lost)

"Grace was in all her steps,
heaven in her eye,
in every gesture dignity and love.

Paradise Lost"
— John Milton

"As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: 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 Milton (Areopagitica)

"A good book is the precious
life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured
up on purpose to a life beyond life."
— John Milton (Areopagitica)

"The mind can make a heaven out of hell and a hell out of heaven."
— John Milton

"Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear"
— John Milton

"What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support,
That to the height of this great argument
I may assert eternal Providence,
And justify the ways of God to men. 1
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22."
— John Milton

"Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st/Live well, how long or short permit to heaven."
— John Milton (Paradise Lost)

"What hath night to do with sleep?"
— John Milton

"For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them."
— John Milton (Areopagitica)

"Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in their pregnant causes mixed/ Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,/ Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain/ His dark materials to create more worlds,--/ Into this wild Abyss the wary Fiend/ Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while,/ Pondering his voyage; for no narrow frith/ He had to cross. "
— John Milton (Paradise Lost)

"He who reigns within himself and rules his passions desires and fears is more than a king. "
— John Milton

"If not Victory, revenge! "
— John Milton (Paradise Lost)

"O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams
That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere."
— John Milton (Paradise Lost)

"Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is,....."
— John Milton

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

"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."
— John Milton (Paradise Lost)

"Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell;
And in the lowest deep a lower deep
Still threat'ning to devour me opens wide,
To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heav'n”"
— John Milton (Paradise Lost)

"Still paying, still to owe.
Eternal woe! "
— John Milton

"Only supreme in misery!"
— John Milton

"Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light;"
— John Milton (Paradise Lost)

""Here at last
We shall be free;
the Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
Here we may reign secure, and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven."
"
— John Milton

"Long is the way, and hard, that out of hell leads up to light."
— John Milton

"They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld
Of Paradise, so late their happy seat,
Waved over by that flaming brand, the gate
With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms:
Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon;
The world was all before them, where to choose
Their place of rest, and Providence their guide;
They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow,
Through Eden took their solitary way."
— John Milton (Paradise Lost)

"Our cure, to be no more; sad cure! "
— John Milton (Paradise Lost)

"Farewell, happy fields, where joy forever dwells! Hail, horrors! Hail, Infernal World! and thou, profoundest Hell, receive thy new possessor- one who brings a mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, and a Hell of Heaven... Here at least we shall be free, th' almighty hath not built here for his envy, will not drive us hence: here we may reign secure; and, in my choice, to reign is worth ambition, though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."
— John Milton (Paradise Lost)

"He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will
By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate
Inextricable, or strict necessity; "
— John Milton (Paradise Lost)

"What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support,
That to the height of this great argument
I may assert eternal Providence,
And justify the ways of God to men."
— John Milton (Paradise Lost)

"Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand with wand'ring steps and slow, through Eden took their solitary way."
— John Milton

"The mind is its own place, and in itself/ can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. -Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen!"
— John Milton (Paradise Lost)

""our state cannot be severed, we are one./One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.""
— John Milton (Paradise Lost)

"The world was all before them, where to choose
Their place of rest, and Providence their guide:
They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow,
Through Eden took their solitary way."
— John Milton

"Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind."
— John Milton

"This horror will grow mild, this darkness light."
— John Milton (Paradise Lost)

"A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit."
— John Milton

"The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him."
— John Milton

"What is strength without a double share of wisdom?"
— John Milton

"Him the Almighty Power
Hurled headlong naming from the ethereal sky,
With hideous ruin and combustion, down
To bottomless perdition ; there to dwell
In adamantine chains and penal fire,
Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms."
— John Milton

"Not to know at large of things remote
From use, obscure and subtle, but to know
That which before us lies in daily life,
Is the prime wisdom."
— John Milton

"The mind is its own place, and can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n."
— John Milton (Paradise Lost)

"The wife, where danger or dishonor lurks, safest and seemliest by her husband stays, who guards her, or with her the worst endures."
— John Milton

"And what is faith, love, virtue unassay'd alone, without exterior help sustained?"
— John Milton

"" Did I request thee maker of my flesh
to mould me man, Did I solicit thee from
darkness to promote me.""
— John Milton

"Farewell happy fields,
Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail."
— John Milton (Paradise Lost)

"The mind, as an entity unto itself, can make a hell of heaven, a heaven of hell...."
— John Milton

"...Horror and doubt distract
His troubled thoughts and from the bottom stir
The Hell within him, for within him Hell
He brings and round about him, nor from Hell
One step no more than from himself can fly
By change of place."
— John Milton (Paradise Lost)

"Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee? whom follow? thou wilt bring me soon to that new world of light and bliss, among the gods who live at ease, where I shall reign at thy right hand voluptuous, as beseems they daughter and thy darling, without end."
— John Milton (Paradise Lost)

""The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveler".
"
— John Milton

"They also serve who only stand and wait.
"
— John Milton