conversation
with
Scott:-"It
occurs to
me," I
observed,
"that
people are
apt to
make too
much fuss
about the
loss of
fortune,
which is
one of the
smallest
of the
great
evils of
life, and
ought to
be among
the most
tolerable."--"Do
you call
it a small
misfortune
to be
ruined in
money-matters?"
he asked.
"It is not
so
painful,
at all
events, as
the loss
of
friends."--"I
grant
that," he
said. "As
the loss
of
character?"--"True
again."
"As the
loss of
health?"--"Ay,
