In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst,
And men and dogs shall drink him till they burst.
--POPE.

The love of money is the root of all evil.--1 TIMOTHY 6:10.

The avaricious man is like the barren, sandy ground of the desert,
which sucks in all the rain and dews with greediness, but yields no
fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others.--ZENO.

Avarice in old age, is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to
increase our provisions for the road, the nearer we approach to our
journey's end?--CICERO.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.--COWLEY.


BASHFULNESS.--Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity;
bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.--MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT.

As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the
gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining
bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature
and humanity.--PLUTARCH.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
--ARISTOTLE.

Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest;
and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of