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• Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know?
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle i, Line 17...
• 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...
• 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...
• A wit 's a feather, and a chief a rod; An honest man 's the noblest work of God.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 247...
• Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle ii, Line 63...
• 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...
• On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle ii, Line 107...
• 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...