Alexander Pope

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in…

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be…

So vast is art, so narrow human wit…

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every…

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

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost…

Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw…

For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best…

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

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the…

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to…

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below…

Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use…

The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no…

All nature is but art unknown to thee…