The German poet observes that the Cow of Isis is to some the divine
symbol of knowledge, to others but the milch cow, only regarded for the
pounds of butter she will yield. O tendency of our age, to look on Isis
as the milch cow!--_Bulwer-Lytton._
Worse poison to men's souls, doing more murders in this loathsome world
than any mortal drug.--_Shakespeare._
Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first
part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to
ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his
age with the milder business of saving it.--_Johnson._