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• In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle i, Line 39...
• Not always actions show the man; we find Who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle i, Line 109...
• Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle ii, Line 15...
• Oh, blest with temper whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day!
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle ii, Line 257...
• Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle iv, Line 43...
• Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle i, Line 172...
• Odious! in woollen! 't would a saint provoke," Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle i, Line 246...
• T is education forms the common mind: Just as the twig is bent the tree 's inclined.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle i, Line 149...
• T is from high life high characters are drawn; A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle i, Line 135...