Life Is Not To Be Bought With Heaps Of Gold: Not All Apollo's Pythian Treasures Hold, Or Troy Once Held, In Peace And Pride Of Sway, Can Bribe The Poor Possession Of A Day.

Short is my date, but deathless my renown.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book ix, Line 535...
The young Astyanax, the hope of Troy.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book vi, Line 467...
To hide their ignominious heads in Troy.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xiv, Line 170...
He held his seat,--a friend to human race.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book vi, Line 18...
The day shall come, that great avenging day Which Troy's proud glories in the dust shall lay, When Priam's powers and Priam's self shall fall, And one prodigious ruin swallow all.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book iv, Line 196...
Respect us human, and relieve us poor.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book ix, Line 318...
A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book ix, Line 725...
Injustice, swift, erect, and unconfin'd, Sweeps the wide earth, and tramples o'er mankind.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book ix, Line 628...
In death a hero, as in life a friend!
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xvii, Line 758...