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 CowleyMay I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
Abraham CowleyNothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
Abraham Cowley