John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
3283 Henry
| NUMBER: | 3283 |
| AUTHOR: | Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke St. John (1678–1751) |
| QUOTATION: | It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature and Nature’s God; that is, he follows God in his works and in his word. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Letter to Mr. Pope. |
| Note 1. Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God. Alexander Pope: Essay on Man, epistle iv. line 331. [back] |