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.

What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?

All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!

Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.

Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.

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.

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.