Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or cowper:
“Indifference is commonly the mother of discretion.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“Here may we prove the pow’r of pray’r,
To strengthen faith, and sweeten care;
To teach our faint desires to rise,
And bring all heav’n before our eyes.”
—William Cowper (1731–1800)