Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me, / If I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
Samuel Johnson·1750To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
EpicurusOf all the means which wisdom acquires to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is friendship.
Socrates·415 BCHe is richest who is content with the least, for contentment is the wealth of nature.
