n hour may lay it in the
dust.--_Byron._

Extended empire, like extended gold, exchanges solid strength for feeble
splendor.--_Johnson._

~Possessions.~--It so falls out that what we have we prize not to the
worth whiles we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost, why then we rack
the value; then we find the virtue that possession would not show us
whiles it was ours.--_Shakespeare._

All comes from and will go to others.--_George Herbert._

In life, as in chess, one's own pawns block one's way. A man's very
wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win,
more often checkmate him.--_Charles Buxton._

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness and
intention of mind imaginable, he finds not half the pleasure in the
actual possession of them as he proposed to himself in the
expectation.--_South._

As soon as women become ours we are no longer theirs.--_Montaigne._

Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust. The
malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may apply to
every other course of life,--that its two days of happiness are the
first and the last.--_Johnson._

~Posterity.~--Posterity preserves only what will pack into small compass.
Jewels are handed down from age to age, less portable valuables
disappear.--_Lord Stanley._

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not
always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with
compound interest in the end.--_Colton._

~Poverty.~--Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single
want--the want of money.--_Zimmerman._

Few save the poor feel for the poor.--_L. E. Landon._

Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread,
and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's
stairs.--_Dante._

Riches endless is as poor as winter, to him that ever fears he shall be
poor.--_Shakespeare._

A poor man resembles a fiddler, whose music, though liked, is not much
praised, because he lives by it; while a gentleman performer, though the
most wretched scraper alive, throws the audience into
raptures.--_Goldsmith._

He is not poor that little hath, but he that much desires.--_Daniel._

The wicked man's tempter, the good man's perdition, the proud man's
curse, the melancholy man's halter.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

~Power.~--The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a
single object, can accomplish something.