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• He would not, with a peremptory tone, Assert the nose upon his face his own.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Conversation, Line 121...
• God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform
  He plants his footsteps in the sea And rides upon the storm....
• He sees that this great roundabout The world, with all its motley rout, Church, army, physic, law, Its customs and its businesses, Is no concern at all of his, And says--what says he?
  Caw. -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Jackdaw, (Translation from Vincent Bourne)...
• His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Conversation, Line 303...
• Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed,-- The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast.
  -- James Montgomery (1771-1854) -- What is Prayer?...
• Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. -- E. Joseph Cossma
• An atheist is but a mad ridiculous derider of piety
  but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religio...
• When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it.
  His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality....
• Presume to lay their hand upon the ark Of her magnificent and awful cause.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Line 231...