Alexander Pope

“Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.”

“So vast is art, so narrow human wit.”

“All nature is but art unknown to thee.”

“For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best.”

“If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.”

“What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.”

“Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.”

“No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.”

“Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.”

“The learned is happy, nature to explore;
The fool is happy, that he knows no more.”

“Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.”

“Health consists with temperance alone.”

“Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.”

“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.”

“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.”

“One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.”

“I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.”

“Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.”

“Woman's at best a contradiction still.”

“A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.”

“The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.”

“'Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.”

“For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.”

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”