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I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.   Milton, John

Excerpt from Areopagitica A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England · This quote is about virtue · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.

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