William Cowper

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

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

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

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

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

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

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