The Less Money Lying Idle The Greater

Money Is Economic Power.

Public Opinion Is A Permeating Influence, And It Exacts Obedience To Itself; It Requires Us To Drink Other Men's Thoughts, To Speak Other Men's Words, To Follow Other Men's Habits.

All The Inducements Of Early Society Tend To Foster Immediate Action; All Its Penalties Fall On The Man Who Pauses; The Traditional Wisdom Of Those Times Was Never Weary Of Inculcating That "delays Are Dangerous," And That The Sluggish Man The Man "who Roasteth Not That Which He Took In Hunting" Will Not Prosper On The Earth, And Indeed Will Very Soon Perish Out Of It. And In Consequence An Inability To Stay Quiet, An Irritable Desire To Act Directly, Is One Of The Most Conspicuous Failings Of Mankind.

Business Is Really More Agreeable Than Pleasure; It Interests The Whole Mind, The Aggregate Nature Of Man More Continuously, And More Deeply. But It Does Not Look As If It Did.

The Sovereign Has, Under A Constitutional Monarchy Such As Ours, Three Rights - The Right To Be Consulted, The Right To Encourage, The Right To Warn. And A King Of Great Sense And Sagacity Would Want No Others.