It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past
A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.
No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.
Thought is the seed of action.
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.
Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold