"Of the thousands and tens of thousands who toil up the steep and often rugged paths to wealth, and attain the desired eminence, how few are ever heard of beyond the small community in which they live! Some of these, to perpetuate a name, establish at death some showy charity, and thus build for themselves a monument not overshadowed by statelier mausoleums amid the rivalries of a fashionable cemetery.

Pah! All this ranges far below my aspiring.

I wish to make a name while living.

Wealth in itself is only a toy.

No true man can find pleasure in its mere glitter for a day.