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?

We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.