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
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. – Alexander Pope
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. – 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