Order is Heavens first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king. – Alexander Pope
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. – Alexander Pope
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His cant be wrong whose life is in the right. – Alexander Pope
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. – Alexander Pope
However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself. – Antonin Artaud