The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
Woman's at best a contradiction still.
Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
Health consists with temperance alone.
Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best.
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
To err is human to forgive, divine.
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
'Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.