They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed. – William Cowper
If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one… – William Cowper

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed. – William Cowper
If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one… – William Cowper
Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame;
He hides behind a magisterial air
He own offences, and strips others bare. – William Cowper
Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me. – William Cowper