Quotes by Pope, Alexander

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in o >>

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administer >>

Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul. >>

Quotations about Order

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos. >>

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. >>

Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be >>

Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.

Pope, Alexander