Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. – Alexander Pope
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so. – Alexander Pope
Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse. – Alexander Pope
It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out. – Alexander Pope
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. – Alexander Pope
You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live. – Alexander Pope
Beauty draws us with a single hair. – Alexander Pope
Astrologers that future fates foreshow. – Alexander Pope