Quotes by Alexander Pope

There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.

He mounts the storm and walks upon the wind.

And all who told it added something new And all who heard it made enlargements too.

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

False happiness is like false money it passes for a long time as well as the true and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch we find the lightness and alloy and feel the loss.

The learned is happy nature to explore the fool is happy that he knows no more.

I have as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.

In faith and hope the world will disagree but all mankinds concern is charity.

Know then thyself presume not God to scan: The proper study of mankind is man.

An honest mans the noblest work of God.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast Man never is but always to be blest.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast.

For I who hold sage Homers rule the best Welcome the coming speed the going guest.

Thou wert my guide philosopher and friend.

Alive ridiculous and dead forgot?

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring Their shallow draughts intoxicate the brain And drinking largely sobers us again.

The vanity of human life is like a river constantly passing away and yet constantly coming on.

Nature and Natures laws lay hid in night: God said Let Newton be! and all was light.

A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.