John Milton Best Quotations

The best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words

O fairest of creation! last and best / Of all God's works! Creature in whom excelled / Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, / Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet!

My fairest, my espoused, my latest found, / Heaven's last best gift, my ever new delight.

For solitude is sometimes best society, And short retirement urges sweet return

Implied / Subjection, but required with gentle sway / And by her yielded, by him best received; / Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, / And sweet reluctant amorous delay.