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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...
• 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...
• But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens!
  how the style refines! -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 220...
• 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...
• 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...
• One science only will one genius fit: So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part i, Line 60...
• Some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there.
  These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire...
• Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 53...