Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or cowley:
“A certain degree of ceremony is a necessary outwork of manners, as well as of religion; it keeps the forward and petulant at a proper distance, and is a very small restraint to the sensible and to the well-bred part of the world.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“Lukewarmness I account a sin,
As great in love as in religion.”
—Abraham Cowley (1618–1667)