A fool must now and then be right, by chance.
William Cowper

A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
William Cowper

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
William Cowper

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
William Cowper

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
William Cowper

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
William Cowper

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
William Cowper

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
William Cowper

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
William Cowper

God made the country, and man made the town.
William Cowper

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
William Cowper

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
William Cowper

It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
William Cowper

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
William Cowper

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
William Cowper

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.
William Cowper

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
William Cowper

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
William Cowper

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.
William Cowper

No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.
William Cowper