A horse is not known by his furniture, but by his qualities; so men should be esteemed for virtue, not wealth. 1234 Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies. --_Dryden's Ovid._ 1235 The best club for a married man is an armchair in front of a big fire-place at home. 1236 Men take each other's measure when they meet for the first time. 1237 Does one see wolves taking to the road in order to plunder other wolves, as does inhuman man? 1238 No man can end with being superior, who will not begin with being inferior. --_Sydney Smith._ 1239 Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive. --_Dr. Johnson._ 1240 No man is always wise. --_Pliny._ 1241 An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him. 1242 They that stand high have many blasts to shake them. --_Shakespeare._ 1243 Men possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with. --_Froude._ 1244 The life of an old man is like a lighted candle in a draft. --_Japanese._ 1245 The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor the man perfected without trials. --_From the Chinese._ 1246 He was--describe him who can, An abridgement of all that was pleasant in man; A truer, nobler, trustier heart, More loving or more loyal, never beat Within a human breast. 1247 Some men remain poor because they haven't enough friends, and some because they have too many. 1248 A poor man, though living in the crowded mart, no one will notice; a rich man, though dwelling amid the remote hills, his distant relative will visit. 1249 Art may make a suit of clothes, but nature must produce the man. --_Hume._ 1250 The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never for himself. 1251 It is not good that man should be alone. --_Genesis 2, 18v._ 1252 Silent men, like still waters, are sometimes deep and dangerous. 1253 Man is a social creature, and we are made to be helpful to each other; we are like the wheels of a watch, that none of them can do their work alone, without the concurrence of the rest. 1254 Strive not too anxiously for thy support, thy Maker will provide. No sooner is a man born, than milk for his support streams from the breast. --_Chinese._ 1255 He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity. --_Colton._ 1256