Child! Do Not Throw This

But Though Usury Is In Itself Immoral, And Justly Condemned By Every Ethical Code, Its Chief And Worst Defect In The Particular Case We Are Now Examining, The Growth Of Capitalism And Its Increasing Proletariat, Is The Centralization Of Irresponsible Control Over The Lives Of Men: The Putting Power Over The Proletariat Into The Hands Of A Few Who Can Direct The Loans Of Currency And Credit Without Which That Proletariat Could Not Be Fed And Clothed And Maintained In Work.

Loss And Possession, Death And Life Are One, There Falls No Shadow Where There Shines No Sun.

In The Same Way The Eminence Attaching To The Mere Possession Of Great Wealth Disappoints Us Nine Times Out Of Ten, Especially If The Wealth Has Been Accumulated Rapidly. For Great Wealth Is Accumulated Rapidly By Cunning Or Chance, Or A Mixture Of The Two. Cunning Has Nothing To Do With High Qualities; It Is Rather A Presumption Against Them; While Chance Has Nothing To Do With Them Either. Therefore It Is That Men Are Always Complaining After Meeting So-and-so, That He Seemed To Be Astonishingly Stupid, Though He Made A Million In Ten Years And Started As A Pauper.

There Are Few Greater Temptations On Earth Than To Stay Permanently At Oxford In Meditation, And To Read All The Books In The Bodlean.

I Am A Sundial, And I Make A Botch Of What Is Done Much Better By A Watch.