William Cowper

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

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

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

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

“The cups that cheer but not inebriate.”

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

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

“Grief is itself a medicine.”

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

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

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

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

“Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness.”

“How fleet is a glance of the mind!”

“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.”

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

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