"I thought," said Ayrton, turning short round upon Lamb, "that you of the Lake School did not like Pope?" --"Not like Pope! My dear sir, you must be under a mistake -- I can read him over and over for ever!" -- "Why, certainly, the Essay on Man must be allowed to be a masterpiece." -- "It may be so, but I seldom look into it." -- "Oh! then it's his Satires you admire?" -- "No, not his satires, but his friendly Epistles and his compliments." -- "Compliments! I did not know he ever made any." -- "The finest, " said Lamb, "that were ever paid by the wit of man. Each of them is worth an estate for life -- nay, is an immortality. --quoted by Hazlitt, in Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen.