So melted my wealth away.

So toppled my airy castle to the earth and left me stricken and forlorn.
Moralizing, I observed, then, that "all that glitters is not gold." Mr.Ballou said I could go further than that, and lay it up among my treasures of knowledge, that nothing that glitters is gold.

So I learned then, once for all, that gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and that only low-born metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter.

However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica.

Commonplace human nature cannot rise above that..