in making up the account between the citizen who has all he needs and
the citizen who has to spare for others who will pay him a profit. Men
who have lived in constant dread of poverty have been astonished, upon
being stranded on that shore of ill-repute to find the sun shining more
brightly and the birds singing more cheerily than when, driven with the
ever multiplying engagements of business, they had no slumber which was
not an imaginary hurrying into a bank-president's parlor, and no
conversation which was not distressing some impatient caller in an
ante-room.