Quotes by Abraham Cowley

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

Thin airy things extend themselves in space, Things solid take up little place. . .

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.

Lukewarmness I account a sin As great in love an in religion.

No matter what the form of the government, the liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have themselves made.

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