Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.