People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1894 — GEMS OF THOUGHT. [ARTICLE]

GEMS OF THOUGHT.

Modesty, prudence, wit and civility are the elements of true nobility.— German Proverb.

Character is not cut in marble, it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do. —George Eliot. The face of a woman, whatever be the force or extent of her mind, whatever be the importance of the object she pursues, is always an obstacle or a reason in the story of her life.—Mme. de Stack