A Great Eye

καὶ μὴν μέγας γ᾽ ὀφθαλμὸς οἱ πατρὸς τάφοι.
And indeed the tomb of your father is a great eye.  
Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 987

This line always cracks me up because of Emerson.*  It beats some stolidly smiling kouros.

*Image from:
Transcendentalism Overhead.  "Trancendentalism." http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/transcendentaloverhead.htm