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Man's True Worth

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 10, 1856

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 7, No. 15.

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Man's True Worth

MAN'S TRUE WORTH.—Rothschild is forced to content himself with the same sky as a poor newspaper writer, and the great banker cannot order a private sunset, or add one ray to the magnificence of night. The same blood swells all veins. Each one possesses, really, only his own thoughts and his own senses. Soul and body—these are the property which a man owns. All that is valuable can be had for nothing in this world. Genius, beauty, and love, are not to be bought and sold. You may buy a rich bracelet but not a well turned arm to wear it—a pearl necklace, but not a pearl throat with which it shall vie. The richest banker on earth would vainly offer a fortune to be able to write a verse like Byron. One comes into the world naked and goes out naked; the difference in the fineness of a bit of linen for the shroud is not much. Man is a handful of clay, which turns quickly back again into dust.