A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.
Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,- Such men as live in these degenerate days.
He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.
The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
The hearts of great men can be changed.
Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving.