For Forms Of Government Let Fools Contest; Whate'er Is Best Administer'd Is Best.

The enormous faith of many made for one.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iii, Line 242...
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle i, Line 267...
In lazy apathy let stoics boast Their virtue fix'd
't is fix'd as in a frost; Contracted all, retiring to the brea...
Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings.
Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of ma...
What can ennoble sots or slaves or cowards? Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 215...
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle ii, Line 1...
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come....
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...
Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle i, Line 9...