Mill quotes

John Stuart Mill, By a mighty effort of will, Overcame his natural bonhomie And wrote'Principles of Political Economy'.

- Edmund Clerihew Bentley
  Biography for Beginners,'John Stuart Mill'.

How often have I paused on every charm, The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topped the neighbouring hill.

- Oliver Goldsmith
  The Deserted Village, l.9^12.

God's mill grinds slow, but sure.

- George Herbert
Jacula Prudentum (published posthumously,1651).

Some physiologists will have it that the stomach is a mill;others, that it is a fermenting vat;others again that it is a stew-pan;but in my view of the matter, it is neither a mill, a fermenting vat, nor a stew-panbut a stomach, gentlemen, a stomach.

-William Hunter
Quoted in  J  A Paris  A  Treatise on Diet (1824), epigraph, from a note made by Hunter on one of his lectures.

Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves.

-John Milton
Samson  Agonistes, l.40^1.

The sailing pine, the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The builder oak, sole king of forests all, The aspen good for staves, the cypress funeral. The laurel, meed of mighty conquerors And poets sage, the fir that weepeth still, The willow worn of forlorn paramours, The ewe obedient to the benders will, The birch for shafts, the sallow for the mill, The myrrh sweet bleeding in the bitter wound, The warlike beech, the ash for nothing ill, The fruitful olive, and the platan round, The carver holme, the maple seldom inward sound.

- Edmund Spenser
  The Faerie Queen, bk.1, canto1, stanzas 8^9. plantan=plane tree; holme=holly.