William Cowper

“A fool must now and then be right by chance.”

“Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon his knees.”

“God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform.”

“God made the country, and man made the town.”

“Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.”

“The cups that cheer but not inebriate.”

“England, with all thy faults, I love thee still—My country!”

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”

“There is a pleasure in poetic pains which only poets know.”

“I would not enter on my list of friends... the man who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.”

“Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.”

“I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute.”

“Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.”

“Grief is itself a medicine.”

“The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.”

“No man was ever scolded out of his sins.”

“Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness.”

“How fleet is a glance of the mind!”