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Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as va

Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates — but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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