Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Romeo and Juliet. Act iii. Sc. 3.

O Mirth and Innocence! O milk and water!

Ye happy mixtures of more happy days.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Beppo. Stanza 80.

Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,

Uproar the universal peace, confound

All unity on earth.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act iv. Sc. 3.

Yet do I fear thy nature;

It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 5.

For he on honey-dew hath fed,

And drunk the milk of Paradise.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): Kubla Khan.

And the imperial votaress passed on,

In maiden meditation, fancy-free.

Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell:

It fell upon a little western flower,

Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound,

And maidens call it love-in-idleness.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1.

The gentle Lady married to the Moor,

And heavenly Una with her milk-white lamb.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Personal Talk. Stanza 3.

Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale.

Robert Burns (1759-1796): The Cotter's Saturday Night.