The most positive men are the most credulous.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

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

Health consists with temperance alone.

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

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Never find fault with the absent.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

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

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

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