When convinced that money may be earned without disgrace, we ought to allow money to carry the day.

When we talk of sordid gain and filthy lucre, we are generally hypocrites.

If gains be sordid and lucre filthy, where is the priest, the lawyer, the doctor, or the man of literature, who does not wish for dirty hands?
An income, and the power of putting by something for old age, something for those who are to come after, is the wholesome and acknowledged desire of all professional men.

Thackeray having children, and being gifted with no power of making his money go very far, was anxious enough on the subject.

We may say now, that had he confined himself to his pen, he would not have wanted while he lived, but would have left but little behind him.