Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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.
Life is an incurable disease.
Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.