Alexander Pope

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

"The stoic husband was the glorious thing. The man had courage, was a sage, tis true, And lovd his country."

"Well, if our author in the wife offends He has a husband that will make amends; He draws him gentle, tender, and forgiving, And sure such kind good creatures may be living."

"Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more Ill tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!"

"I find myself just in the same situation of mind you describe as your own, heartily wishing the good, that is the quiet of my country, and hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few."

"Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!"

"I think it was a generous thought, and one that fowd from an exalted mind, that it was not improbable but God might be delighted with the various methods of worshipping him, which divided the whole world."

"Each finding like a friend Something to blame, and something to commend."

"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed" was the ninth Beatitude which a man of wit (who, like a man of wit, was a long time in gaol) added to the eighth."

"Who neer knew joy but friendship might divide, Or gave his father grief but when he died."

"Methinks God has punishd the Avaritious as he often punishes sinners, in their own way, in the ver sin itself: the thrist of gain was their crime, that thrist continued became their punishment and ruin. As for the few who have the good fortune to remain with half of what they imagined they had (among whom is your humble servantl, I would have them sensible of their felicity, and convinced of the truth of old Hesiods maxim, who, after half his estate was swallowed by the Directors of those days, resolvd, that half to be more than the whole."

"Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie."