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• In lazy apathy let stoics boast Their virtue fix'd
  't is fix'd as in a frost; Contracted all, retiring to the brea...
• 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...
• 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...
• The enormous faith of many made for one.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iii, Line 242...
• 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...
• Order is heaven's first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise
  but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense....
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...