“None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.”

— John Milton, The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649)

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.”

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.”

“Not to display anger or other emotions. To be free of passion and yet full of love.”

“I call upon you, young men, to obey your heart, and be the nobility of this land.”

“Give all to love; obey thy heart.”