Alexander Pope, Moral Essays

"Men, some to business take, some to pleasure take; but every woman is at heart a rake"

"Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please,With too much spirit to be e'er at ease,With too much quickness ever to be taught,With too much thinking to have common thought:You purchase pain with all that joy can give,And die of nothing but a rage to live."

"If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay;If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!"