About Alexander Pope:
Alexander Pope is best known for his satirical verse, as well as for his translation of Homer. Famous for his use of the heroic couplet, he is the second-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare.
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
Alexander PopeA God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
Alexander PopeHow shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
Alexander PopeTrust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
Alexander PopeBehold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Alexander Pope