“Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.”

Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.

Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

Envy creates the beginning of strife.

More men have become great through practice than by nature.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.

Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.

Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

Despite all the silver of Diana and Mercury, their images will be found on the lake. For the sculptor looking for new clay, he and his people will be flooded with gold.

There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.

Your magic is too golden, too sky-opening, too hearts-bursting to be buried quietly away.

The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.

Speech is silver, silence is golden.

The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.

In one sense we are a favorite because we won a gold medal in 2002.

Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.