Herman Melville Quote

The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!


The works of Herman Melville (ed. 1922)


The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ...

The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ...

The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ...

The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ...