The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Alexander Pope

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
Alexander Pope

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
Alexander Pope

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
Alexander Pope

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

The most positive men are the most credulous.
Alexander Pope

The proper study of Mankind is Man.
Alexander Pope

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Alexander Pope

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
Alexander Pope

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
Alexander Pope

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.
Alexander Pope

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Alexander Pope

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
Alexander Pope

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
Alexander Pope

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
Alexander Pope

Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
Alexander Pope

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
Alexander Pope

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

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
Alexander Pope

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