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• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise
  Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man....
• Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused
  Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all...