The present is all the ready money Fate can give.

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.

s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.

What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.

His time's forever, everywhere his place.