Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
A fool must now and then be right, by chance
[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her.
The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.