Alexander Pope quotes

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

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

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

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

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

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

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

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

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

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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

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.

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

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

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

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

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

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

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

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

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Never find fault with the absent.

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.

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

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

Health consists with temperance alone.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The most positive men are the most credulous.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

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

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

Health consists with temperance alone.

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

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

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.