| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Homer |
| | | Like Shakespeare, for all time. Emerson. | 1 |
| Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him. Pope. | 2 |
| Milton is the most sublime, and Homer the most picturesque. Robert Hall. | 3 |
| | I can no more believe old Homer blind, |
| Than those who say the sun hath never shin’d; |
| The age therein he liv’d was dark, but he |
| Could not want sight who taught the world to see. |
Denham. | 4 |
| | Read Homer once, and you can read no more, |
| For all books else appear so mean, so poor; |
| Verse may seem prose; but still persist to read, |
| And Homer will be all the books you need. |
Duke of Buckinghamshire. | 5 | | |
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