Abraham Cowley Country Quotations

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

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

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 a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.