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• Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow proves the substance true.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 266...
• Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flow
  But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar....
• Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 32...
• To err is human, to forgive divine.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 325...
• Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 109...
• All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundic'd eye.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 358...
• Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 126...
• Led by the light of the Maeonian star.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part iii, Line 89...
• And make each day a critic on the last.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part iii, Line 12...