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• Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue i, Line 136...
• Years following years steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.
• The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
• Words that wise Bacon or brave Raleigh spoke.
• Above all Greek, above all Roman fame.
• Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
• Lord Fanny spins a thousand such a day.
• Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise.
• The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease.