Alexander Pope

“For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”

“To err is human to forgive, divine.”

“But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?”

“A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.”

“All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.”

“Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!”

“An honest man's the noblest work of God.”

“Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.”

“Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.”

“Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.”

“Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.”

“The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.”

“A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.”

“They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.”

“Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.”

“The most positive men are the most credulous.”

“Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.”

“Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.”

“And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.”

“Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.”

“Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.”

“Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.”

“Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.”