~Wealth.~--An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At
first he is stunned, if the accession be sudden; he is very humble and
very grateful. Then he begins to speak a little louder, people think him
more sensible, and soon he thinks himself so.--_Cecil._
If Wealth come, beware of him, the smooth, false friend! There is
treachery in his proffered hand; his tongue is eloquent to tempt; lust
of many harms is lurking in his eye; he hath a hollow heart; use him
cautiously.--_Tupper._
Men pursue riches under the idea that their possession will set them at
ease, and above the world. But the law of association often makes those
who begin by loving gold as a servant, finish by becoming themselves its
slaves; and independence without wealth is at least as common as wealth
without independence.--_Colton._
~Weeping.~--What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows! What
poor, defenseless creatures they would be!--_Douglas Jerrold._
~Welcome.~--Heaven opened wide her ever-during gates, harmonious sound! on
golden hinges turning.--_Milton._
~Wickedness.~--The happiness of the wicked passes away like a
torrent.--_Racine._
The hatred of the wicked is only roused the more from the impossibility
of finding any just grounds on which it can rest; and the very
consciousness of their own injustice is only a grievance the more
against him who is the object of it.--_Rousseau._
Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame,
accompanied with terror and commotion, and remorse, and endless
perturbation.--_Plutarch._
What rein can hold licentious wickedness, when down the hill he holds
his fierce career?--_Shakespeare._
~Wife.~--Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou
art the man in the moon.--_Congreve._