Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men.
That great brow And the spirit-small hand propping it.
God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.
Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?
Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
Success in marriage is more than finding the right person: it is being the right person.