Thoughts on Various Subjects

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He who tells a lie, is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

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Pope, Alexander. "Thoughts on Various Subjects." Swifts's Miscellanies. London, 1727, no. 31.

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A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

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Pope, Alexander. "Thoughts on Various Subjects." Swifts's Miscellanies. London, 1727, no. 11.

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