Facts Speak Plainer Than Words

Pray Do Not Grieve So; But Go And Take A Stone, And Place It In The Hole, And Fancy That The Gold Is Still Lying There. It Will Do You Quite The Same Service; For When The Gold Was There, You Had It Not, As You Did Not Make The Slightest Use Of It.

Every One Is More Or Less Master Of His Own Fate.

If You Choose Bad Companions, No One Will Believe That You Are Anything But Bad Yourself.

Wealth Unused Might As Well Not Exist.

Every Man Should Be Content To Mind His Own Business.