Alexander Pope

Quotes

• “A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser ...”
• “A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.”
• “Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.”
• “To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,To raise the genius, and to mend the heart”
• “Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.”
• “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
• “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.”
• “So vast is art, so narrow human wit.”
• “Wit is the lowest form of humor.”