“ For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he may a very strong one. Homer
“ And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved. Homer
“ Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. Homer
“ Question me now about all other matters, but do not ask who I am, for fear you may increase in my heart it's burden of sorrow as I think back; I am very full of grief, and I should not sit in the hous… Homer
“ …There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad. Homer
“ When two men are together, one of them may see some opportunity which the other has not caught sight of; if a man is alone he is less full of resource, and his wit is weaker. Homer