Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make..

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

Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile..

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

There have been fewer friends on earth than kings..

"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….

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

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

Life is an incurable disease..

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

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

His time's forever, everywhere his place..

Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?.

Coy Nature, (which remain'd, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy'd by none, Nor seen unveil'd by anyone), When Harvey's violent pas….

And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant….

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!.

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

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

The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey..

The world's a scene of changes..

The present is all the ready money Fate can give..