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.
~ Alexander Pope
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.
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
Health consists with temperance alone.
The most positive men are the most credulous.
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
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.
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Never find fault with the absent.
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
