I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.

Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.

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

Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.

The present is an eternal now.

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

The monster London laugh at me.