A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. – Alexander Pope
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe. – Alexander Pope
A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. – Alexander Pope
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe. – Alexander Pope
Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use. – Alexander Pope
There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde’s plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics. – Brander Matthews, “American Aphorisms,” Harper’s Magazine, November 1915,