Our Youth And Manhood Are

Contact With [menstrual Blood] Turns New Wine Sour, Crops Touched By It Become Barren, Grafts Die, Seed In Gardens Are Dried Up, The Fruit Of Trees Fall Off, The Edge Of Steel And The Gleam Of Ivory Are Dulled, Hives Of Bees Die, Even Bronze And Iron Are At Once Seized By Rust, And A Horrible Smell Fills The Air; To Taste It Drives Dogs Mad And Infects Their Bites With An Incurable Poison.

The Leading Distinction In Magnets Is The Sex, Male And Female, And The Next Great Difference In Them Is The Colour. Those Of Magnesia, Bordering On Macedonia, Are Of A Reddish Black; Those Of Breotia Are More Red Than Black; And The Kind That Is Found In Troas Is Black, Of The Female Sex, And Consequently Destitute Of Attractive Power.

I Would Have A Man Generous To His Country, His Neighbors, His Kindred, His Friends, And Most Of All His Poor Friends. Not Like Some Who Are Most Lavish With Those Who Are Able To Give Most Of Them.

Hope Is A Working-man's Dream.

This Only Is Certain, That There Is Nothing Certain.