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• The mildest manners, and the gentlest heart.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xvii, Line 756...
• Dispel this cloud, the light of Heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xvii, Line 730...
• He held his seat,--a friend to human race.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book vi, Line 18...
• A green old age, That proves the hero born in better days.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xxiii, Line 929...
• Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend; And each brave foe was in his soul a friend.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book vii, Line 364...
• Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book x, Line 293...
• Achilles absent was Achilles still.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xxii, Line 418...
• Ajax the great... Himself a host.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book iii, Line 293...
• And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xiii, Line 106...