Modesty is still a provocation.--_Poincelot._

Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.--_E. de

Girardin._

~Money.~--Wisdom, knowledge, power--all combined.--_Byron._

Oh, what a world of vile ill-favored faults looks handsome in three

hundred pounds a year!--_Shakespeare._

It is my opinion that a man's soul may be buried and perish under a

dung-heap, or in a furrow of the field, just as well as under a pile of

money.--_Hawthorne._

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he

that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.--_Franklin._

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