What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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.
All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.