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

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.

Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.

Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.

All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!

Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!

The present is an eternal now.