Quotes by 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."

"So vast is art, so narrow human wit."

"To err is human; to forgive, divine."

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

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

"Health consists with temperance alone."

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

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

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

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

"They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake."

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

"Never find fault with the absent."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."