Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!

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

Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.

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!

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.

Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.