A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.

If you are one of earth’s inhabitants, how blest your father, and your gentle mother, blest all your kin. I know what happiness must send the warm tears to their eyes, each time they see their wondrous child go to the dancing! But one man’s destiny is more than blest—he who prevails, and takes you as his bride. Never have I laid eyes on equal beauty in man or woman. I am hushed indeed.

Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,- Such men as live in these degenerate days.

It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.

…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.

I want answers now or I want them eventually!

Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable