„‚(…) then wilt thouh not be loth To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.'“

„‚This yet I apprehend not, why to those Among whom God will deign to dwell on Earth So many and so various laws are given:...

Klage Adams

„Beast now with beast ‚gan war, and fowl with fowl, and fish with fish (…)“

Book IX

„Carnal desire inflaming: he on Eve Began to cast lascivious eyes; she him As wantonly repaid; in lust they burn, Till Adam thus ‚gan Eve...

„Heaven is for thee to high to know what passes there; be lowly wise; Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of...

„things to their thought so unimaginable as hate in Heaven“

Book VI

„We know no time when we were not as now; Know none before us, self-begot, self-rais’d By our own quickening power, when fatal course Had circled his full...