“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.”