"I never had any other desire so strong .. that I might be master at last of a small house and large garden,"

"I am glad that you approve and applaud my design of withdrawing myself from all tumult and business of the world..."

"... solitude can be well fitted and set right but upon a very few persons."

Freedom with virtue takes her seat/Her proper place, her only scene/Is in the golden mean/She lives not with the poor, nor with the great.