NOTEWORTHY SAYINGS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1543, 27 April 1887, Page 3

NOTEWORTHY SAYINGS.

The following epigrammatic sentences oulled f rotu an American writer are worth preserving : — To do right is the bud, blossom and fruit of wisdom. lhe poor imagine that the rich live m Paradise. I know that most of them live m a gilded hell. The gulf if» growing wide between Lazarus and Dives, onl^ the two have changed places. Dives is m Abraham's bosom. All men are not capable of getting a living now. Sorao are not cunning enough, not strong enough, not stingy enough. Millions of machines have been invented to save labour, but the laborer does not own the machine. The machine owns the laborer. No n&an has the genius or brains to own g,oOo,ooodols. The money owns him . He la the key to the safe, Yet these men go on accumulating. It is a sort of insanity. If it were possible to bottle the air there would be a great American air bottling association before sundown to-morrow, and millions wou'd be allowed to die for want of a breath if they were unable to pay their monthly {air bills. There is something about money that dries up the affections. 1 suppose that one reason of it is that the moment a man gets any money there are so many trying te get it away from him that he thinks the whole race are his enemies.