Abraham Cowley

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

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

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

Life is an incurable disease.

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.

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

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