Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1917 — Riches and Wants. [ARTICLE]

Riches and Wants.

“As riches Increase,” says Solomon, “Bo do the mouths that devour them.” The master mouth has no more than before. The owner, methinks, Is like Ocnus in the fable, who is perpetually winding a rope of hay, and an ass at the end perpetually eating It. Out of these inconveniences arises naturally one more, which is, that no greatness can be satisfied or contented with Itself; still, if it could mount up a little higher, it would be happy; if it could gain but that point, It would obtain all its desires; but yet at last, when it is up to the very top of the Peak of Teneriffe, it is in very great danger of breaking its neck downward, but in no possibility of ascending upward into the seat of tranquility above the moon. —Abraham Cowley.