Among many that might be selected, the following are well known: All are but parts of one stupendous whole Whose body nature is, and God the soul.
Know thou thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
A wit's a feather, and a chief's a rod; An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Among the historical teachings of Pope's works and career, and also among the curiosities of literature, must be noticed the publication of Pope's letters, by Curll the bookseller, without the poet's permission.

They were principally letters to Henry Cromwell, Wycherley, Congreve, Steele, Addison, and Swift.

There were not wanting those who believed that it was a trick of the poet himself to increase his notoriety; but such an opinion is hardly warranted.

These letters form a valuable chapter in the social and literary history of the period.
POPE'S DEATH AND CHARACTER .-- On the 30th of May, 1744, Pope passed away, after a long illness, during which he said he was "dying of a hundred good symptoms." Indeed, so frail and weak had he always been, that it was a wonder he lived so long.

His weakness of body seems to have acted upon his strong mind, which must account for much that is satirical and splenetic in his writings.