Your desire is insatiate, mine is satisfied." "Lord, how many things are in the world of which Diogenes hath no need!" exclaimed the stoic, as he wandered among the miscellaneous articles at a country fair.
"One would think," said Boswell, "that the proprietor of all this (Keddlestone, the seat of Lord Scarsfield) must be happy." "Nay, sir," said Johnson, "all this excludes but one evil, poverty." "What property has he left behind him ?" people ask when a man dies; but the angel who receives him asks, "What good deeds hast thou sent before thee ?" "What is the best thing to possess ?" asked an ancient philosopher of his pupils.

One answered, "Nothing is better than a good eye,"-- a figurative expression for a liberal and contented disposition.

Another said, "A good companion is the best thing in the world;" a third chose a good neighbor; and a fourth, a wise friend.

But Eleazar said: "A good heart is better than them all." "True," said the master; "thou hast comprehended in two words all that the rest have said, for he that hath a good heart will be contented, a good companion, a good neighbor, and will easily see what is fit to be done by him." "My kingdom for a horse," said Richard III.

of England amid the press of Bosworth Field.