Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.--JOUBERT.


AVARICE.--It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be
the chief good.--JOHNSON.

Poverty is in want of much, but avarice of everything.--PUBLIUS SYRUS.

There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an
avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the
other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.--FIELDING.

O cursed lust of gold: when for thy sake
The fool throws up his interest in both worlds,
First starved in this, then damn'd in that to come.
--BLAIR.

Many have been ruined by their fortunes; many have escaped ruin by the
want of fortune. To obtain it, the great have become little, and the
little great.--ZIMMERMANN.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.--GEORGE BANCROFT.

Riches, like insects, when conceal'd they lie,
Wait but for wings, and in their season fly.
Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store,
Sees but a backward steward for the poor;
This year a reservoir, to keep and spare;
The next a fountain, spouting thro' his heir