Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.
Abraham Cowley

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
Abraham Cowley

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 Cowley

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

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

Life is an incurable disease.
Abraham Cowley

The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
Abraham Cowley