"The day of return for a man long absent is the best of days."

"For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers."

"Two diverse gates there are of bodiless dreams, These of sawn ivory, and those of horn. Such dreams as issue where the ivory gleams Fly without fate, and turn our hopes to scorn. But dreams which issu…"

"The gods, too, are fond of a joke."

"Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one."