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.

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

"We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d'or or d'argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms."

Life is an incurable disease.

Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!

Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.