Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
Alexander Pope
Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
Alexander Pope
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
Alexander Pope
Act well your part; there all honor lies.
Alexander Pope
'Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.
Alexander Pope
Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.
Alexander Pope
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
Alexander Pope
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
Alexander Pope
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Alexander Pope
Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
Alexander Pope
An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
Alexander Pope
True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
Alexander Pope
Die and endow a college or a cat.
Alexander Pope
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
Alexander Pope
For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
Alexander Pope
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.