One day a man came and said, "My case is coming before the court, but I have no money, and so if I lose the case it will go hard with my children." Thereupon the sage wrote on a piece of paper the words, "I see nothing in this case; I will dismiss it", and he told the man to go home and not trouble himself further about the matter. In due time the man went to court, and he answered all the questions put to him. The judge also asked various questions of the barrister on the opposite side, and finally he wrote down his opinion, using the exact words which the sage had written down. What had the sage done? He had engraved on the mind of this judge the selfsame words that he had used.