Alexander Pope

Never was it given to mortal man – To lie so boldly as we women can…

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like…

Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and…

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than…

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined…

And, after all, what is a lie? ‘Tis but the truth in a masquerade…

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do…

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but…

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole…

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have…

Wit is the lowest form of humor…

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by…

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature…

Health consists with temperance alone…

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