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• And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle ii, Line 131...
• The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle ii, Line 135...
• That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 397...
• Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunello.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 203...
• Virtuous and vicious every man must be,-- Few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle ii, Line 231...
• Know then this truth (enough for man to know),-- "Virtue alone is happiness below.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 309...
• Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle ii, Line 1...
• Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle ii, Line 205...
• Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
  The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come....