Note 20 — "AN OLD OFFENDER."

"No man who knows what his income is, and what he is spending, will run into extravagance."20 Plutarch tells us of a man whose income was £500, and he spent £5000 a year knowingly. This must have been an exceptional case. There is an obscure dictum that "money is the root of all evil." "Gold! gold!"21 said an ill-known poet, and, on the other hand, "Hail, independence!"22 said another. "If thou art rich, thou'rt poor"23 is on the face of it an untruth.