They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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

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

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

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

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

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.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

Never find fault with the absent.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

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

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

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

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

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

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

One science only will one genius fit; 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.

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

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

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Health consists with temperance alone.

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

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

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

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.