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• Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iii, Line 177...
• 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...
• Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 390...
• The soul's calm sunshine and the heartfelt joy.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 168...
• 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...
• Never elated when one man 's oppress'd; Never dejected while another 's bless'd.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 323...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...