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• Strong are her sons, though rocky are her shores.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book ix, Line 28...
• And what he greatly thought, he nobly dar'd.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book ii, Line 312...
• For never, never, wicked man was wise.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book ii, Line 320...
• Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book ii, Line 207...
• Nor can one word be chang'd but for a worse.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book viii, Line 192...
• The big round tear stands trembling in her eye.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book iv, Line 936...
• The fool of fate,--thy manufacture, man.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xx, Line 254...
• A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book vii, Line 67...
• A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book viii, Line 432...