“Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine, that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field.” Edmund Burke
“I should rather labor as another’s serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.” Homer
“Among all men on Earth, bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the Muse has taught them songs, and loves the race of bards.” Homer
“We have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.” Edmund Burke
“And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you-it’s born with us the day that we are born.” Homer
