"The greatest part of men are but a rude multitude, and have no more sense of things than children."

"And in the lowest deep a lower deep still threatening to devour me opens wide, to which the hell I suffer seems a heaven."

"To be more than man, is not to be man."

"Yet not to earth are those bright luminaries lent for show, but to dispense their good."

"What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the highth of this great Argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men."