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• For he lives twice who can at once employ The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Imitation of Martial...
• These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book iv, Line 118...
• A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
  -- Alexander Pope...
• He held his seat,--a friend to human race.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book vi, Line 18...
• Tell me, my soul, can this be death?
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Dying Christian to his Soul...
• Of all affliction taught a lover yet 'Tis sure the hardest science to forget. -- Alexander Pope
• Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Thoughts on Various Subjec...
• Is there a parson much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross?
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, Prologue to the Satires, Line 15...
• Tis well - but, Artists! who can paint or write, To draw the naked is your true deligh
  That robe of quality so struts and swells, None see what parts of nature it conceals....