Alexander Pope

"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance."

"The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres."

"And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade."

"So vast is art, so narrow human wit."

"'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined."

"A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring."

"A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity."

"Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw."

"For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best."

"Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground."

"Health consists with temperance alone."

"Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below."

"Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot."

"One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit."

"Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few."

"Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God."

"Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon."

"The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more."

"The most positive men are the most credulous."

"They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake."

"To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves."

"What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease."

"Woman's at best a contradiction still."