Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground. -Alexander Pope Nature
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. -Alexander Pope Education
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 Change
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. -Alexander Pope Learning
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. -Alexander Pope Business
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. -Alexander Pope Chance
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave. -Alexander Pope Patriotism
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. -Alexander Pope Art
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. -Alexander Pope Faith
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe. -Alexander Pope Trust
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. -Alexander Pope Education
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. -Alexander Pope Nature
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. -Alexander Pope Diet
