Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

Woman absent is woman dead.

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.

Never find fault with the absent.

How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!