Life and Literature

Chapter 100

A" complain o" want o" siller (money): nane o" want o" sense.

--_Scotch._

1385

Your money cannot change your blood, Although you strut as though it could.

1386

A MONEY-LENDER.

He serves you in the present tense; He lends you in the conditional mood; Keeps you in the subjunctive; And is apt to ruin you in the future!

--_Addison._

1387

The love of money is the root of much devotion.

1388

A man"s money is either his master or his slave.

1389

Money doesn"t make happiness. There is many a heart-ache behind plenty of money!

--_Nettie S. Murphy._

1390

He who finds no money in his own purse, is still less likely to find it in that of others.

1391

Aga.s.siz said, "I have no time to waste in making money. Life is not sufficiently long to enable a man to get rich and do his duty to his fellow man at the same time."

1392

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

1393

THE POWER OF MONEY.

Money will purchase occupation; It will purchase all the conveniences of life; It will purchase variety of company; It will purchase all sorts of entertainments; It can change men"s manners; alter their conditions!

How tempestuous these slaves are without it!

O thou powerful metal! what authority Is in thee! thou art the key of all men"s Mouths; with thee a man may lock up the jaws Of an informer, and without thee, he Cannot open the lips of a lawyer.

--_Broome._

1394

Mention money and the world is silent.

1395

How like a queen comes forth the lonely moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds; Walking in beauty to her midnight throne!

--_G. Croly._

1396

MOON.

See yonder fire! it is the moon Slow rising o"er the eastern hill.

It glimmers on the forest tips, And through the dewy foliage drips In little rivulets of light, And makes the heart in love with night.

--_H. W. Longfellow._

1397

With morning cool reflection comes.

--_Sir Walter Scott._

1398

The morning hour has gold in its mouth.

--_Dr. Franklin._

1399