The little unsuspected evil on which we trip
may swell up in a moment and prove to be the huge, Janus-like
mountain of unpardonable sin. And his health may be required of any
fool, any night or any day.
A man will feel loss of money more keenly than loss of bodily health,
so long as he can keep his money. Take his money away and deprive
him of the means of earning any more, and his health will soon break
up; but leave him his money and, even though his health breaks up and
he dies, he does not mind it so much as we think. Money losses are
the worst, loss of health is next worst and loss of reputation comes
in a bad third. All other things are amusements provided money,
health and good name are untouched.
Solicitors
A man must not think he can save himself the trouble of being a
sensible man and a gentleman by going to his solicitor, any more than
he can get himself a sound constitution by going to his doctor; but a
solicitor can do more to keep a tolerably well-meaning fool straight
than a doctor can do for an invalid. Money is to the solicitor what
souls are to the parson or life to the physician. He is our money-
doctor.
Doctors
Going to your doctor is having such a row with your cells that you
refer them to your solicitor. Sometimes you, as it were, strike
against them and stop their food, when they go on strike against
yourself.
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