To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.

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.

The present is all the ready money Fate can give.

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.

Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.

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