A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day; Like Hectors in at every petty fray. - John Dryden

...when the youthful pair more closely join,
When hands in hands they lock, and thighs in thighs they twine;
Just in the raging foam of full desire,
When both press on, both murmur, both expire,
They grip, they squeeze, their humid tongues they dart,
As each would force their way to th'others heart.
In vain; they only cruise about the coast.
For bodies cannot pierce, nor be in bodies lost,
As sure they strive to be, when both engage
In that tumultuous momentary rage.
So tangled in the nets of love they lie,
Till man dissolves in that excess of joy.

Man, like the vine, supported lives;
His strength comes from the embrace he gives.

Of all the tyrannies on human kind
The worst is that which persecutes the mind.