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Alexander Pope Quotes


Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Health consists with temperance alone.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?