The love of money is the root of all evil.—1 Timothy 6:10.
The avaricious man is like the barren, sandy ground of the desert, which sucks in all the rain and dews with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others.—Zeno.
Avarice in old age, is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road, the nearer we approach to our journey's end?—Cicero.
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.—Cowley.
Bashfulness.—Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.—Mary Wollstonecraft.
As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity.—Plutarch.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.—Aristotle.
Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice.—Colton.
Beauty.—It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the charm.—Fontenelle.
Keats spoke for all time when he said, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever."—Thackeray.