If pale beans bubble for you in a red earthenware pot, you can often decline the dinners of sumptuous hosts.
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won't give an inch, but she won't say no.
For life is only life when blessed with health.
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. It has obtained a worthy reward for its great toils; we may suppose that the bee itself would have desired such a death.
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.