Sicilian quotes

What that Sicilian mule was to me, I have been to the Queen.

-W(illiam) E(wart) Gladstone
  Memorandum on his relationship with Queen Victoria, 20 Mar.

Sicelides Musae, paulo maiora canamus. Non omnis arbusta iuvant humilesque myricae. Sicilian Muses, let us sing a somewhat loftier strain. Not all do orchards please and the lowly tamarisks.

-Virgil full name Publius Vergilius Maro
Eclogues, 4.1^2 (translated by H Rushton Fairclough).