Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.

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!

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.

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

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

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?