Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity. Abraham Cowley Read Quote
Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last. Abraham Cowley Read Quote
The world’s a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy. Abraham Cowley Read Quote
This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high. Abraham Cowley Read Quote
His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was always in the right. Abraham Cowley Read Quote