There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
For love deceives the best of woman kind.
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.
Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above With ease can save each object of his love; Wide as his will extends his boundless grace.
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.