Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
The world's a scene of changes.
There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.