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• True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 97...
• From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part i, Line 152...
• Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 53...
• True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
  'T is not enough no harshness gives offence,-- The sound must seem an echo to the sense....
• Some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there.
  These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire...
• Led by the light of the Maeonian star.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part iii, Line 89...
• To err is human, to forgive divine.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 325...
• And make each day a critic on the last.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part iii, Line 12...
• For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part iii, Line 66...