“Let us not depend upon the world for pleasure.”

Source: The Pillow Book

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 210.

Chapter V Applied Idealism http://www.bartleby.com/55/5.html <br class="br">1910s, Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography (1913)

Source: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), II
Context: It seemed clear to me that life and the world somehow depended upon me now. I may almost say that the world now seemed created for me alone: if I shot myself the world would cease to be at least for me. I say nothing of its being likely that nothing will exist for anyone when I am gone, and that as soon as my consciousness is extinguished the whole world will vanish too and become void like a phantom, as a mere appurtenance of my consciousness, for possibly all this world and all these people are only me myself.

1880s, Plea for Free Speech in Boston (1880)

Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 7 (p. 133)

Frame of Government (1682)
Context: Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them; and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But, if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn.