C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Gain
For me to live is Christ, to die is gain.
An evil gain equals a loss.
The elegant simplicity of the three per cents.
A captive fetter’d at the oar of gain.
He who seeks for gain must be at some expense.
Counts his sure gains, and hurries back for more.
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
From others’ slips some profit from one’s self to gain.
Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. ’Tis good to be merry and wise.
As to pay, sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it.