What man with a human heart, who has ever cared for domestic animals, could look into their eyes, so full of confidence and affection, and willingly give them over to the butcher's knife? How could he devour their flesh as a sweet morsel?
He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.
There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind. "
I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish. ]
What sort of government is it that permits so many children to go to school hungry, without even a morsel of food in their stomachs? It cannot be! It must not be!
A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.
A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.
[Would] a sensible man spit out the juicy morsel that good fortune put in his mouth?
To the loved, a word of affection is a morsel; but to the love-starved, a word of affection can be a feast.
