William Cowper Quotes on Ethics
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Misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case.
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Glory, built On selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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He would not, with a peremptory tone, Assert the nose upon his face his own.
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A hat not much the worse for wear.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.
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But many a crime deem'd innocent on earth Is register'd in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex'd. Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, But God will never.
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I would not enter on my list of friends, (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.