chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, it creates more wants than it supplies.

WEALTH.-The consideration of the small addition often made by wealth to the happiness of the possessor, may check this desire, and prevent that insatiability which sometimes attends it.-Essay on the Passions.

WEALTH.-Seek not proud wealth; but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.-Lord Bacon.

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WEALTH.--Excessive wealth is neither glory nor happiThe cold and sordid wretch who thinks only of himself; who draws his head within his shell, and never puts it out, but for the purpose of lucre and ostentation; who looks upon his fellow-creatures, not only without sympathy, but with arrogance and insolence, as if they were made to be his vassals, and he to be their lord; as if they were made for no other purpose than to pamper his avarice, or to contribute to his aggrandizement; such a man may be rich, but trust me, he can never be happy, nor virtuous, nor great. There is in a fortune, a golden nean, which is the appropriate region of virtue and intelligence. Be content with that; and if the horn of plenty overflow, let its droppings fall upon your fellow-men; let them fall like the droppings of honey in the wilderness, to cheer the faint and weary pilgrim - Wirt.

WEALTH.-Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others.- Colton.

WEALTH.-The million covet wealth, but how few dream of its perils! Few are aware of the extent to which it min. isters to the baser passions of our nature; of the selfishness it engenders; the arrogance which it feeds; the self-security which it inspires; the damage which it does to all the nobler feelings and holier aspirations of the heart!-Neale.

WEALTH-What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient, procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites. then precedence might be attended with real amusement. - Goldsmith.

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WEALTH.-Guard wealth by entails and settlements as we will, the most affluent plenty may be stripped, and find all its worldly comforts like so many withered leaves dropping from us-the crowns of princes may be shaken; and the greatest that ever awed the world, have looked back and moralized upon the turn of the wheel.-Sterne.

WEALTH-He that will not permit his wealth to do any good to others while he is living, prevents it from doing any good to himself when he is dead; and by an egotism that is suicidal and has a double edge, cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here, and the highest happiness hereafter.— Colton.

WEALTH.-There is one reason seldom remarked, which makes riches less desirable. Too much wealth is very frequently the occasion of poverty. He whom the wantonness of abundance has once softened, easily sinks into neglect of his affairs; and he that thinks he can afford to be negligent, is not far from being poor. He will soon be involved in perplexities which his inexperience will render insurmountable; he will fly for help to those whose interest it is that he should be more distressed, and will be at last torn to pieces by the vultures that always hover over fortunes in decay.Johnson.

WEALTH, DETERMINATION TO POSSESS IT.-They that will be rich, fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.-Paul.

WEALTH FOR CHILDREN. It is poor encouragement to toil through life to amass a fortune to ruin your children. In nine cases out of ten, a large fortune is the greatest curse which could be bequeathed to the young and inexperienced.

WEALTH, HEREDITARY.-Though hereditary wealth, and the rank which goes with it, are too much idolized by creeping sycophants, and the blind abject admirers of power, they are too rashly slighted in shallow speculations of the petulaut, assuming, short-sighted coxcombs of philosophy. Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolitic.-Burke.

WEALTH IN THE HAND AND HEART.-It is much better to have your gold in the hand, than in the heart.-Fuller.

WEALTH, ITS VALUE.-Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us; its value is found only in that which it can purchase; which if we suppose it put to its best use by those who possess it, seems not much to deserve the envy or desire of a wise man. It is certain that with regard to corporal enjoyment, money can neither open new avenues of pleasure, nor block up the passages of anguish. Disease and infirmity still continue to torture and enfeeble, perhaps exasperated by luxury, or promoted by softness. With respect to the mind, it has rarely been observed, that wealth contributes much to quicken the discernment or elevate the imagination, but may by hiring flattery, or laying diligence asleep, confirm error and harden stupidity.—John

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WEALTH OF A STATE. The wealth of a state consists not in great treasures, solid walls, fair palaces, weapons and armor; but its best and noblest wealth, and its truest safety, is, in having learned, wise, honorable, and well-educated citi

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WEALTH, THE PASSION FOR.— The eloquent but often scorching Dr. South, tells us of those in his day who believed in no god but mammon, no devil but the absence of gold, no damnation but being poor, and no hell but an empty purse; and not a few of their descendants are living still.

WEALTH, THE WAY TO.-' -The way to wealth, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; and with them, everything.-Franklin.

WEALTH, WORLDLY.-Worldly wealth, is the devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches, recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase; as the moon, when she is fullest of light, is farthest from the sun.-Burton.

WELL-DOING, ITS REWARD.-Work, every hour, paid or unpaid; see only that thou work, and thou canst not escape thy reward. Whether thy work be fine or coarse, planting ́corn, or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses, as well as to the thought. No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory. The reward of a thing well-done, is to have done it.-R. W. Emerson.

WELL-DOING, ITS REWARD.-Constant activity in endeav oring to make others happy, is one of the surest ways of making ourselves so.

WICKEDNESS.-Wickedness may well be compared to a bottomless pit, into which it is easier to keep one's self from falling, than, being fallen, to give one's self any stay from falling infinitely.-Sir P. Sidney.

WICKEDNESS. They are the same beams that shine and

enlighten, and are apt to scorch too, and it is impossible for a man engaged in any wicked way, to have a clear under standing of it, and a quiet mind in it altogether.—South.

WICKEDNESS, GLORYING IN.-To those persons who have vomited out of their souls all remnants of goodness, there rests a certain pride in evil; and having else no shadow of glory left them, they glory to be constant in iniquity.-Sir P. Sidney.

WICKED, THE.- -The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt: there is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.-Isaiah.

WICKED, THE.-Bias, one of the seven wise men, being in a storm with wicked men, who cried mightily to God, "Hold your tongues," said he, "it were better he knew not you were here."

WICKED, THE, IN MISFORTUNE.- -A wicked man reduced tc hardships and misfortunes, is truly in a miserable case; he has lost all the enjoyments his heart was formerly set upon; and having no relish for those of another kind, is left altogether dead to any sense of pleasure, and must of course languish and sink under the weight of a joyless and weari some being-Hibernicus's Letters.

WIFE. The good wife commandeth her husband, in any equal matter, by constantly obeying him.

WILL, THE-We have more power than will; and it is only to exculpate ourselves that we often say things that are impracticable.-Rochefoucault.

WILL, WIT, AND JUDGMENT.—At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. -Gratian.

WILLS. There are two things in which men in other