The Chief-justice Was Rich, Quiet, And Infamous.

Nothing Is So Useless As A General Maxim.

Office Of Itself Does Much To Equalize Politicians. It By No Means Brings All Characters To A Level; But It Does Bring High Characters Down And Low Characters Up Towards A Common Standard.

Nobles By The Right Of An Earlier Creation, And Priests By The Imposition Of A Mightier Hand.

A Dominant Religion Is Never Ascetic.

The Passages In Which Milton Has Alluded To His Own Circumstances Are Perhaps Read More Frequently, And With More Interest, Than Any Other Lines In His Poems.