“Le teste di legno
Fan sempre del chiasso.”
“’Tis aye the wooden heads
That most disturbance make.”
“Le vostre cose tutte hanno lor morte
Siccome voi, ma celasi in alcuna
Che dura naolto, e le vite son corte.”
“All things amongst ye carry life and change
Just like yourselves, although in some ’tis hid,
Since life is brief, and theirs of longer range.”
— (J. I. Minchin.)
“Legge aurea e felice
Che Natura scolpi : S’ei place, ei lice.”
“The happy, golden law
That Nature carved : All that we like is right.”
“Legge gli uomini attentamente, Peppina, e sieno essi di qualunque edizione si voglia, da ognuno acquisterai delle cognizioni dispregevoli solo agli occhi degli stolti.”
“Read men attentively, Peppina, and be they of what edition you will, you will acquire from every one information which only fools would disparage.”
“Lenta germoglia e lenta si matura
La rovere del bosco, e a lungo dura.
II vento la disfronda e la flagella:
Ma il vento passa e lei si rinnovella.”
“Slowly doth bud, and slowly doth mature
The woodland oak, yet doth long time endure.
Lashed by the winds, her leaves around she steews,
But, the wind passed, her beauty she renews.”
“Li colpi non si danno a patti.”
“Knocks are not dealt by measure."—(J. A. Symonds.)
“Libera chiesa in libero stato.”
“A free Church in a free State.”
“Liberamente il forte
Apre al dolor le porte
Del cor, come all’ amico.”
“The brave ne’er hesitate
To open the heart’s gate
To pain, as to a friend.”
