Alexander Pope Quotes about Home
The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.32
You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
"Epigram: You beat your pate" l. 1 (1732)
Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1859). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with a life”, p.212