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

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.

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.

His time's forever, everywhere his place.

Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.

Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!

Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.