--_Spanish._

1653

Those who act in a disinterested way seldom miss their reward.

1654

One knows not for whom he gathers.

--_French._

1655

It is wealth to a man to be able to live contentedly upon a frugal
store.

1656

RUSKIN MEETS SOME TOURISTS.

"I was fated the other day to come from Venice to Verona with a
family--father and mother and two girls--it matters not what country
they came from--presumably rich--girls fifteen and eighteen. I never
before conceived the misery of people who had evidently spent all their
lives in trying to gratify themselves. It was a little warm--warmer than
was entirely luxurious--but nothing in the least harmful. They moaned
and fidgeted and frowned and puffed and stretched and fanned, and ate
lemons, and smelled bottles, and covered their faces, and tore the cover
off again, and had not one thought or feeling during five hours of
traveling in the most noble part of all the world except what four poor
beasts would have had in their end of a menagerie, being dragged about
on a hot day. Add to this misery every form of polite vulgarity, in
methods of doing and saying the common things they said and did. I never
yet saw humanity so degraded (allowing for external circumstances of
every possible advantage) given wealth, attainable education and the
inheritance of eighteen centuries of Christianity."

--_Letter to Charles E. Morton in the Atlantic._

1657

They call him rich; I deem him poor;
Since, if he dares not use his store,
But saves it for his heirs,
The treasure is not his, but theirs.

1658

The generous should be rich, and the rich should be generous.

1659

Very rich men seldom or never whistle; poor men always do.

1660

Who is truly rich? He who is satisfied with what he possesses.

--_From The Talmud._

1661

It is difficult to gather a heap in a long time, but it is easy to
squander the whole in a day.

--_Diphilus._

1662

Sir Thomas Sutton, the founder of the Charter House, was one of the
wealthiest merchants of his day. Fuller tells how he was overheard one
day praying in his garden: "Lord, Thou hast given me a large and liberal
estate; give me also a heart to make use of it."

1663

_The Influence of Riches._--A re