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• Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle i, Line 87...
• Virtuous and vicious every man must be,-- Few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle ii, Line 231...
• Honour and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 193...
• Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But as the world, harmoniously confus'd, Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Windsor Forest, Line 13...
• In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies.
  Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes: Men would be angels, angels would be gods....
• While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!
  eplies a pamper'd goose. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iii, Line 45...
• On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle ii, Line 107...
• And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle ii, Line 131...
• In lazy apathy let stoics boast Their virtue fix'd
  't is fix'd as in a frost; Contracted all, retiring to the brea...