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.
Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
Alexander PopeWho shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
Alexander PopeTo observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
Alexander PopeTo wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
Alexander PopeFor when success a lover's toil attends, Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends
Alexander PopeThere is no study that is not capable of delighting us, after a little application to it.
Alexander PopeTrue wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
Alexander PopeNature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.
Alexander Pope