It is a remarkable fact that men should have agreed to apply the word “miser,” or miserable, to the man eminently addicted to the vice of covetousness, to him who loves his money with his whole heart and soul. Here, too, the moral instinct lying deep in all hearts has borne testimony to the tormenting nature of this vice, and the man who enslaves himself to his money is proclaimed, in our very language, to be a “miser;” that is, a “miserable man.”—Trench.