Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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.
All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
His time's forever, everywhere his place.
The present is all the ready money Fate can give.