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 CowperMeditation 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 CowperGood sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.
William Cowper