perspective

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

"Consider how quickly all things are dissolved and resolved: the bodies and substances themselves, into the matter and substance of the world: and their memories into the general age and time of the world."

"The whole earth is but as one point; and of it, this inhabited part of it, is but a very little part."

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."