Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

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

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

"We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d'or or d'argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms."

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

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.

I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.