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• Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason,--man is not a fly.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle i, Line 193...
• Form'd by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 379...
• Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunello.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 203...
• What can ennoble sots or slaves or cowards? Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 215...
• That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 397...
• Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 390...
• The soul's calm sunshine and the heartfelt joy.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 168...
• T is but a part we see, and not a whole.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle i, Line 60...
• A wit 's a feather, and a chief a rod; An honest man 's the noblest work of God.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 247...