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

God made the country, and man made the town.

- William Cowper

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

- William Cowper

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

- William Cowper

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

- William Cowper

The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl.

- William Cowper

The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

- William Cowper

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

- William Cowper

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

- 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

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

- William Cowper

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

- William Cowper

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

- William Cowper

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

- William Cowper

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

- William Cowper

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?

- William Cowper

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.

- William Cowper

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

- William Cowper

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.

- 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