Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it.