John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
2865 Abraham Cowley 1618-1667 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 2865 |
| AUTHOR: | Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) |
| QUOTATION: | His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I ’m sure, was in the right. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | On the Death of Crashaw. |
| Note 1. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, He can’t be wrong whose life is in the right. Alexander Pope: Essay on Man, epilogue iii. line 303. [back] |