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• The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle i, Line 217...
• 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...
• T is but a part we see, and not a whole.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle i, Line 60...
• 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 i, Line 17...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...