Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel. – Alexander Pope
Nature and natures laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light! – Alexander Pope
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
No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her. – Alexander Pope