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 - [Solitude]

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
~ Abraham Cowley - [Time and Time Management]

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
~ Abraham Cowley - [Hope]

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
~ Abraham Cowley - [Indifference]