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

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

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

Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.

As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.

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.

The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.