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._