Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

- 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

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

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

- Abraham Cowley

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

- Abraham Cowley

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

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

- Abraham Cowley

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

- Abraham Cowley

This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

- Abraham Cowley