“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 effi...”

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”

“Freely we serve Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.”

“Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great command!”

“And of the sixth day yet remained There wanted yet the master work, the end Of all yet done: a creature who not prone And brute as other creatures but endued With sanctity of reason might er...”

“Whom hast thou then, or what, to accuse, but heaven's free love dealt equally t'all?”

“How can I live without thee, how forego Thy sweet converse, and love so dearly joined, To live again in these wild woods forlorn? Should God create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet...”

“Immortal amarant, a flower which once In paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft...”

“Consult.../what reinforcement we may gain from hope,/If not, what resolution from despair.”