It is not position, but mind, that I want, said a lady to her father, when rejecting a suitor.
1359
Those who visit foreign countries, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs; they see new meridians, but the same men, and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home, with travelled bodies, but untravelled minds.
1360
Youthful minds, like the pliant wax, are susceptible of the most lasting impressions, and the good or evil bias they then receive is seldom if ever eradicated.
1361
Little minds are hurt by little things; great minds rise above them.
1362
Noblest minds are easiest bent.