That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.
James Thomson

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?
James Thomson

The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.
James Thomson

Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.
James Thomson

For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day.
James Thomson

Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.
James Thomson

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
James Thomson