You needn't think you will have to mope around the piazza, your body on a mountain and your mind in Wall Street.

You are getting old and rich, and you must begin to take an interest in other things besides business." "Now, that's thoughtful and kind of you," he said, and then he lapsed into a revery that the contraction of his brow showed to be not altogether agreeable.
At last he said, "Madge, I half believe you are right.

I am and have been too devoted to business.

It's all very well as long as you can drive it, but when it begins to drive you it is a hard task-master.
The times are bad.

Instead of making anything, one has to use all his faculties to keep from losing what he has made.