“Mirth, admit me of thy crew, to live with her, and live with thee, in unreproved pleasures free.”

— John Milton, "L'Allegro" (1631), line 38

About John Milton

1608 – 1674

English poet and polemicist, author of the epic 'Paradise Lost' (1667).

“A grateful mind by owing owes not, but still pays, at once indebted and discharged.”

“Man hath his daily work of body or mind appointed.”

“They also serve who only stand and wait.”

“Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness?”

“We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”

“The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.”

“There is only one enduring happiness in life—to live for others.”

“The consciousness of life is higher than life, the knowledge of the laws of happiness is higher than happiness.”

“It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.”