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
Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use. – Alexander Pope
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. – Alexander Pope
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance. – Alexander Pope
Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age,—lasting as space and time,—embosomed in time and space. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Progress of Culture”