Life is an incurable disease.
May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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.
The world's a scene of changes.
Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.