Grace: the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Leisure: Melville's "Bartleby the scrivener"
Serendipity: Izaak Walton's The compleat angler and Machiavelli's The prince
Playfulness: A midsummer night's dream, orthodoxy, and at the back of the north wind
Piety: The aeneid, 1984, and Brave new world
Courtesy: the idea of a university and introduction to the devout life
Humility: the tales of the brothers Grimm and of Hans Christian Andersen
Generosity the merry adventures of Robin Hood
Simplicity: the wonder clock
Hope: Shakespeare's miracle plays
Obedience: the Gospel account of the wedding at Cana
Gratitude: the rule of St. Benedict
Wisdom: Samuel Johnson's Rasselas
Courage: Huckleberry Finn
Penitence: The canterbury tales
Daring: The merchant of Venice and the great divorce
Kindness and the "human touch": the short stories of O. Henry
