Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
Life is an incurable disease.
Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.