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

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….

The present is an eternal now..

What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!.

Much will always wanting be To him who much desires..

All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries..

Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends..

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

Life is an incurable disease..

Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night..

Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live..

Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!.

This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high..

The world's a scene of changes..

There have been fewer friends on earth than kings..

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

May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true..

His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right..

Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company..

When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled..

For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room..