myriad quotes

There died a myriad, And of the best, among them, For an old bitch gone in the teeth, For a botched civilization.

- Ezra Loomis Pound
  Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, pt.5.

It is the great inspector, with a myriad eyes, who never sleeps, and whose daily reports are submitted, not to a functionary or department, but to the whole people.

-WilliamThomas Stead
  Of a newspaper.'Government byJournalism', in the Contemporary Review, May. Collected in A Journalist on Journalism (1892).