Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
~ William Cowper - [Compassion]

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
~ William Cowper - [Nature]

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.
~ William Cowper - [Sin]

No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.
~ William Cowper - [Enthusiasm]

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
~ William Cowper - [Applause]

Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
~ William Cowper - [Solitude]

Once more I would adopt the graver style -- a teacher should be sparing of his smile.
~ William Cowper - [Teachers and Teaching]

Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word!
~ William Cowper - [Religion]

Remorse begets reform.
~ William Cowper - [Remorse]

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
~ William Cowper - [Regret]

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
~ William Cowper - [Devil]

The darkest day, If you live till tomorrow will have past away.
~ William Cowper - [Hope]

The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
~ William Cowper - [Conscience]

The life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
~ William Cowper - [Idleness]

The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.
~ William Cowper - [Friends and Friendship]

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.
~ William Cowper - [Churches]

The path of sorrow and that path alone, leads to a land where sorrow is unknown.
~ William Cowper - [Sorrow]

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
~ William Cowper - [Purpose]

Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor.
~ William Cowper - [Variety]

Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing.
~ William Cowper - [Guests]