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• Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt, And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) -- To Mr. Pope, Epistle i, Line 277...
• 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...
• 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...
• Man makes a death which Nature never made.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) - Night Thoughts, Night iv, Line 15...
• Accept a miracle instead of wit,-- See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) -- To Mr....
• 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...
• Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle i, Line 200...
• T is but a part we see, and not a whole.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle i, Line 60...
• 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...