William C. Hall

“What shall I tell Mother?” The boy continued. "Tell her you have seen a broken-hearted woman cast off by her son.”
― Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native

“who governs a kingdom vast, proud and strong — who upholds justice, true, and the black earth bears wheat and barley, trees bow down with fruit and the sheep drop lambs and never fail and the sea teems with fish —thanks to his decent, upright rule, and under his sovereign sway the people flourish.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. Oscar Wilde, ‘The Critic as Artist’, Intentions (1891)”
― Justin Marozzi, The Way of Herodotus: Travels With the Man Who Invented History

“Athena stroked Odysseus with her wand. She shriveled the supple skin on his lithe limbs, stripped the russet curls from his head, covered his body top to toe with the wrinkled hide of an old man and dimmed the fire in his eyes, so shining once. She turned his shirt and cloak into squalid rags, ripped and filthy, smeared with grime and soot. She flung over this the long pelt of a bounding deer, 500 rubbed bare, and gave him a staff and beggar’s sack, torn and tattered, slung from a fraying rope.”
― Homer, The Odyssey