1. Arthur Milton - “Life without credit would be horrid. Life with too much credit is worse than horrid — its a nightmare. Credit always costs. Whenever you say 'charge it!' You are paying something more, in one way or another, than you would pay for the same item or service in cash. There is a plus to credit if one can use it wisely. For a home, for an automobile, for schooling, etc. But take care — don’t abuse it. Stay well below 'your desires.' And pay off as quickly as you can. Take care of what you have and have as little as you really need. Buy 'used' when practical. Make do with what you have until you can pay cash for consumable items.”

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2. John Milton - “Revenge, at first though sweet, bitter ere long, Back on itself recoils.”

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3. John Milton - “The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”

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4. John Milton - “The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.”

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5. John Milton - “Solitude is sometimes best society, and short retirement urges sweet return.”

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6. John Milton - “Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, At feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder At the workmanship.”

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7. John Milton - “Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.”

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8. John Milton - “Peace hath her victories No less renowned than war.”

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9. John Milton - “Money brings honor, friends, conquest, and realms.”

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10. John Milton - “Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men.”

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11. John Milton - “In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm And pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.”

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12. John Milton - “He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires And fears, is more than a king.”

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13. John Milton - “Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.”

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14. John Milton - “Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of pestilential winds, Taints the sweet bloom of nature's fairest forms.”

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15. John Milton - “Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.”

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16. John Milton - “Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled; Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.”

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17. John Milton - “No light, but rather darkness visible.”

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18. John Milton - “What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield.”

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19. John Milton - “The childhood shews the man, as morning shews the day.”

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20. John Milton - “When I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning chide, 'Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?' I fondly ask; But patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies 'God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best. His state Is kingly: thousands at His bidding speed And post o'er land and ocean without rest; They also serve who only stand and wait.'”

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21. John Milton - “Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.”

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22. John Milton - “Better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven.”

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23. John Milton - “Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.”

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24. John Milton - “For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone.”

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25. John Milton - “Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.”

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