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• Most authors steal their works, or buy; Garth did not write his own Dispensary.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part iii, Line 59...
• And make each day a critic on the last.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part iii, Line 12...
• Yet let not each gay turn thy rapture move; For fools admire, but men of sense approve.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 190...
• In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old
  Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside....
• From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part i, Line 152...
• The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part iii, Line 53...
• Those oft are stratagems which errors seem, Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part i, Line 177...
• For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part iii, Line 66...
• Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 32...