Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. - Alexander Pope. View more images...

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe. - Alexander Pope. View more images...

O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize,
And make my tongue victorious as her eyes. - Alexander Pope. View more images...

Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep,
Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep. - Alexander Pope. View more images...

My garden, like my life, seems to me every year to want correction and require alternation. - Alexander Pope. View more images...

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs. What mighty contests rise from trivial things. - Alexander Pope. View more images...

There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship. - Alexander Pope. View more images...

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place. - Alexander Pope. View more images...

Of all affliction taught a lover yet,
'Tis true the hardest science to forget. - Alexander Pope. View more images...

One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight;
Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight. - Alexander Pope. View more images...

Ye gods, annihilate but space and time,
And make two lovers happy. - Alexander Pope. View more images...

Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well?
To bear too tender or too firm a heart,
To act a lover's or a Roman's part?
Is there no bright reversion in the sky
For those who greatly think, or bravely die? - Alexander Pope. View more images...

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. - Alexander Pope. View more images...

Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain. - Alexander Pope. View more images...

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her. - Alexander Pope. View more images...