Alexander Pope

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

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more. ”

All nature is but art unknown to thee. ”

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

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

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. ”

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God. ”

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. ”

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

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