"Order is heaven's first law."

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

"For fools admire but men of sense approve."

"A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practise it."

"Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."

"Then say not man's imperfect, Heav'n in fault;. Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought."

"Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child."

"But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?"

"Inscriptions here of various Names I view'd,The greater part by hostile time subdu'd;Yet wide was spread their fame in ages past,And Poets once had promis'd they should last."

"Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause."

"I am his Highness' dog at Kew;Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?"

"Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after."

"To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves."

"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame."

"Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel."

"Let Sporus tremble - "What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk?Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel?Who breaks a Butterfly upon a Wheel?"Yet let me flap this Bug with gilded wings,This painted Child of Dirt that stinks and stings; Whose Buzz the Witty and the Fair annoys,Yet Wit ne'er tastes, and Beauty ne'er enjoys."

"The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave."

"Death, only death, can break the lasting chain;And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain."

"Eve left Adam to meet the Devil in private."

"There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit."

"Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind."

"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

"The world forgetting, by the world forgot."

"Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can."

"Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before,Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more."

"Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance."

"Those half-learn'd witlings, num'rous in our isle As half-form'd insects on the banks of Nile."

"When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything each of them generally gets that which he likes least."

"I find myself 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."

"If I am right Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong O teach my heart To find that better way!"

"A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring."

"Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!"

"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."

"Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!"

"What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease."

"Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men."

"Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see. Thinks what ne'er was nor is nor e'er shall be."

"No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday."

"Know thyself, presume not God to scan;The proper study of mankind is man."

"Chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd."

"To err is human; to forgive, divine."

"Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground."

"Never find fault with the absent."

"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."

"Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?"

"One truth is clear Whatever is is right."

"What so tedious as a twice-told tale?"

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

"All seems infected that the infected spy as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye."

"For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best."