Alexander Pope

“To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.”

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

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

“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.”

“Woman's at best a contradiction still.”

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

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

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

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

“Wit is the lowest form of humor.”

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

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

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

“Health consists with temperance alone.”

“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.”

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

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”

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

“To err is human; to forgive, divine.”

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

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