Alexander Pope

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

Health consists with temperance alone.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Passions are the gales of life.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.