» Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
» Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
» 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.
» Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
» I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that.... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.