The fame which bids fair to live the longest resembles that which Horace attributes to Marcellus, whose progress he compares to the silent, imperceptible growth of a tree.
Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion (ed. 1843)
The fame which bids fair to live the longest resembles that which Horace attributes to Marcellus, whose progress he compares to the silent, imperceptible growth of a tree.
Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion (ed. 1843)