Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last."

"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.

"The thirsty earth soaks up the rain,
And drinks, and gapes for drink again.
The plants suck in the earth and are
With constant drinking fresh and fair."

"His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might
Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right."