An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, Ease and alternate labour, useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven!
James Thomson
Friendship
An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, Ease and alternate labour, useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven!
James Thomson
The Seasons. Spring. Line 1158.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.