Alexander Pope

“Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.”

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

“Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”

“Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?”

“He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.”

“To err is human, to forgive divine.”

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”

“A little learning is a dangerous thing.”

“The proper study of Mankind is Man.”

“Damn with faint praise.”

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

“For fools admire, but men of sense approve.”

“What reason weaves, by passion is undone.”

“Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.”

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

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

“One truth is clear, 'Whatever is, is right'.”

“Hope springs eternal in the human breast.”

“Order is Heaven's first law.”

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”