Not all that tempts your wandering eyes And heedless hearts is lawful prize, Not all that glisters gold.

He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it.

Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it the superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.

Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.