"Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for knowledge is as food, and needs no less variety than appetite."

"What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and courage never to submit or yield: and what is else not to be overcome?"

"What if the sun be dark’ned in his sphere, And with no chearful ray salute the spring?"

"Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Eev'n or Morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or Summer's Rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine."

"Gorgons and Hydras and Chimæras dire."