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.

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

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

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

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

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

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

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

The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.