That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.

Related:

• Know then this truth (enough for man to know),-- "Virtue alone is happiness below." -
  Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle...
• 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...
• What can ennoble sots or slaves or cowards? Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards.
  Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle...
• The soul's calm sunshine and the heartfelt joy. --
  Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle...
• Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -
  Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line...
• 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...
• Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas;
  And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Caesar...
• In lazy apathy let stoics boast Their virtue fix'd:
  't is fix'd as in a frost; Contracted all, retiring...
• O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure,
  ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still...