“Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life…”

“Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being.”

“Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.”

“Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd…”

“For solitude sometimes is best society, And short retirement urges sweet return.”

“And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed That roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf.”