A mighty pain to love it is,And 't is a pain that pain to miss;But of all pains, the greatest painIt is to love, but love in vain.
~ Abraham Cowley
May I a small house and large garden have;And a few friends,And many books, both true.
What shall I do to be for ever known,And make the age to come my own?
The world's a scene of changes and to be constant in nature is inconstancy.
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.
