This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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.
s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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?