“A mighty pain to love it is,And 't is a pain that pain to miss;But of all pains, the greatest painIt is to love, but love in vain.”

“May I a small house and large garden have;And a few friends,And many books, both true.”

“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.”

“The world's a scene of changes and to be constant in nature is inconstancy.”

“This only grant me that my means may lie too low for envy for contempt too high.”

“Lost Time is never found again.”

“How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.”

“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”