Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
Alexander PopeWomen, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.
Alexander PopeWhat Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
Alexander Pope