No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.
Alexander PopeGenius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
Alexander PopeHomer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
Alexander PopeAll looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!
Alexander Pope