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• Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,-- Such men as live in these degenerate days.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book v, Line 371...
• The matchless Ganymed, divinely fair.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xx, Line 278...
• Where'er he mov'd, the goddess shone before.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xx, Line 127...
• Our business in the field of fight Is not to question, but to prove our might.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xx, Line 304...
• T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xx, Line 290...
• Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspir'd.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xvi, Line 267...
• A green old age, That proves the hero born in better days.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xxiii, Line 929...
• 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...
• Impatient straight to flesh his virgin sword.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xx, Line 461...