Alexander Pope

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

Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

It's an ear job, not an eye job.