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• The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle iii, Line 153...
• Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave
  Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,-- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies....
• Ye little stars! hide your diminish'd rays.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle iii, Line 282...
• Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle i, Line 20...
• Not always actions show the man; we find Who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle i, Line 109...
• T is education forms the common mind: Just as the twig is bent the tree 's inclined.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle i, Line 149...
• Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle i, Line 172...
• Odious! in woollen! 't would a saint provoke," Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle i, Line 246...
• T is from high life high characters are drawn; A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle i, Line 135...