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.

Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.

This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.

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

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.