Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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.
There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.