Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
Take the good the gods provide thee.
When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.