Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.