Why should she fix her heart on what is so easily replaced ?" "Oh, how dreary you make life!" rejoined Sabine.

"Our possessions lose thus their dearest value.

If you kill the imagination which lends its varied hues to lifeless things, what remains?
Nothing but an egotism to which every thing is sacrificed! He who can thus coldly think may do great deeds perhaps, but his life will never be beautiful nor happy, nor a blessing to others;" and unconsciously she folded her hands and looked sadly at Fink, whose face wore a hard and disdainful expression.
The silence was broken by Anton's cheerfully observing, "At all events, Fink's own practice is a striking refutation of his theory." "How so, sir ?" asked Fink, looking round.
"I shall soon prove my case; but first a few words in our own praise.

We who are sitting and standing around are working members of a business that does not belong to us, and each of us looks upon his occupation from the German point of view which Fink has been denouncing.

None of us reasons, 'The firm pays me so many dollars, consequently the firm is worth so many dollars to me.' No; when the house prospers we are all pleased and proud; if it loses, we regret it perhaps more than the principal does.