Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.
The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.