Thomas Haynes Bayly Quote

Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!


I'd be a Butterfly, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings!

Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings!

Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings!

Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings!