Content is the Philosopher’s Stone, that turns all it touches into Gold.
The proof of gold is fire, the proof of woman, gold; the proof of man, a woman.
All that glisters is not gold.
Well, gold contains all things in embryo; gold realizes all things for us.[Eh! bien, l’or contient tout en germe, et donne tout en réalité.]
The Golden Age never was the present Age.
More gold has been mined from the brains of men than has ever been taken from the earth.
Men make a kingdom strong, not gold.
Gold is the spiritual basis of existing society.[L’or est le spiritualisme de vos sociétés actuelles.]
Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.
Far over the misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away ere break of day To seek the pale enchanted gold.
All is not gold that glisters.[translation by John Willis Clark]All that glitters is not gold.[translation by John Ormsby][Que no es oro todo lo que reluce.]
