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• He helde about him alway, out of drede, A world of folke.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Troilus and Creseide, Book iii, Line 1721...
• How various his employments whom the world Calls idle, and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iii, The Garden, Line 352...
• Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame,--nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Samson Agonistes, Line 1721...
• The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book i, The Sofa, Line 506...
• Not because Socrates said so,... I look upon all men as my compatriots.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. ix...
• Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, And eagerly pursues imaginary joys.
  -- Mark Akenside (1721-1770) -- The Virtuoso, Stanza x...
• The man forget not, though in rags he lies, And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.
  -- Mark Akenside (1721-1770) -- Epistle to Curio...
• From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book iii, The Garden, Line 188...
• Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.
  -- Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux (1636-1711) -- The Art of Poetry, Canto iii, Line 374...