When I Heard Voices
Their idols are silver and gold,
The work of men's hands.
They have mouths, but they speak not;
Eyes they have, but they hear not;
They have hands, but they handle not;
Feet have they, but they walk not;
Neither speak they through their throat.
They that make them shall be like unto them;
Yea, every one that trusteth in them.
-- Psalm 113Men judge by the eye rather than the hand, for
All men can see a thing, but few come close enough
to touch it. All men will see what you seem to be; only
A few will know what you are.
--Niccolo Machiavelli