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• Who love too much, hate in the like extreme, And both the golden mean alike condemn.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xv, Line 79...
• Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xv, Line 433...
• For love deceives the best of womankind.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xv, Line 463...
• And taste The melancholy joy of evils past: For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xv, Line 434...
• True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest,-- Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xv, Line 83...
• Too much rest becomes a pain. HOMER
• And rest at last where souls unbodied dwell, In ever-flowing meads of Asphodel.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xxiv, Line 19...
• And for our country 't is a bliss to die.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xv, Line 583...
• Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xv, Line 157...