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.
s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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.