There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him. - Thomas Browne

All cannot be happy at once, for because the glory of one State depends upon the ruine of another, there is a revolution and vicissitude of their greatnesse, which must obey the swing of that wheele, not moved by Intelligences, but by the hand of God, whereby all Estates arise to their Zenith and verticall points, according to their predistinated periods. For the lives not onely of men, but of Commonweales, and the whole World, run not upon an Helix that still enlargeth, but on a Circle where arriving to their Meridian, they decline in obscurity, and fall under the Horizon againe.

Happy are they that go to bed with grave music like Pythagoras.

for by compassion we make anothers misery our own, and so by relieving them, we relieve our selves also.