Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection, AApex Software, 1994.
-- William Shenstone, (Nov 18 1714-1763), English poet, gardener, collector; As a man of taste, he influenced the trend away from Neoclassical formality in the direction of greater naturalness and simplicity.