[1] A wise man looks upon men as he does upon horses; and
considers their comparisons of title, wealth, and place,
but as harness.--_Newton,_ 1725-1807.
In the library of the world, men have hitherto been ranged
according to the form, the size, and the binding. The time
is coming when they will take rank and order according to
their contents and intrinsic merits.--_E. Cook._
A man may be outwardly successful all his life long, and
die hollow and worthless as a puff-ball; and a man may be
externally defeated all his life long, and die in the
royalty of a kingdom established within him. That man is a
pauper who has only outward success; and that man may be a
prince who dies in rags, untended, and unknown in his
physical relations to this world. And we ought to take the
ideal in the beginning that a man's true estate of power
and riches is to be in himself: not in his dwelling; not in
his position; not in his external relations, but in his own
essential character. That is the realm in which a man must
live, if he is to live as a Christian man.--_Beecher._