Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.
Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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.