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“While pensive poets painful vigils keep,
Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.”
― Alexander Pope, The Dunciad

“Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true,
But are not critics to their judgment, too?”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

“A little Learning is a dangerous Thing.”
― Alexander Pope

“True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd
What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd;
Something whose truth convinced at sight we find,
That gives us back the image of our mind.
As shades more sweetly recommend the light,
So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism