I am used to poverty and want, and little satisfies my wishes.

The senate is my master, and as such I honor it; but a fisherman hath his feelings as well as the Doge!" "Again! These feelings of thine, Antonio, are most exacting.

Thou namest them on all occasions, as if they were the engrossing concerns of life." "Signore, are they not to me?
Though I think mostly of my own concerns, still I can have a thought for the distress of those I honor.

When the beautiful and youthful lady, your eccellenza's daughter, was called away to the company of the saints, I felt the blow as if it had been the death of my own child; and it has pleased God, as you very well know, Signore, not to leave me unacquainted with the anguish of such a loss." "Thou art a good fellow, Antonio," returned the senator, covertly removing the moisture from his eyes; "an honest and a proud man, for thy condition!" "She from whom we both drew our first nourishment, Signore, often told me, that next to my own kin, it was my duty to love the noble race she had helped to support.

I make no merit of natural feeling, which is a gift from Heaven, and the greater is the reason that the state should not deal lightly with such affections." "Once more the state! Name thy errand." "Your eccellenza knows the history of my humble life.