Quotes by Pope, Alexander

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness >>

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the >>

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. >>

Quotations about Writers and Writing

Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss. >>

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and >>

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is >>

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence. The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

Pope, Alexander