 any worldly Goods, save one wooden Cup to carry Water to his Mouth; but, when he found that he could drink, by lying down and putting his Mouth to the Stream, he threw his Cup away as a Thing that he did not want.
Alexander,
on the other Side, was a great Conqueror. And, when he had conquered and got Possession of all the World, he fell a crying because there was not a hundred more such Worlds for him to conquer. Now, which of these two was the richest, do you think?
O Dada, exclaimed
Harry, Diogenes
to be sure,
Diogenes
to be sure. He who wants nothing is the richest Man in the World.
Diogenes,
Dada, was richer than
Alexander
by a hundred Worlds.
Very true, my Love, rejoined Mr.
Fenton. Alexander
had a whole World more than
Diogenes
wanted, and yet desired a hundred Worlds more than he had. Now, as no Man will allow that he wants what he does not desire, and all affirm that they want whatsoever they do desire, Desires and Wants are generally accounted as one and the same Thing. And yet, my
Harry,
there is a Thing, of which it may be said, that the more we desire it the less we want it, and that the less we desire of it the greater is our Want.
What in the World can that be, Dada? --It is
Goodness,
my Love. Well, says
Harry,
I will not puzzle my Brains about nice Matters. All I know is, that no Man has more Goodness than he wants, except it be yourself. I don't talk of Women, for I believe Mrs.
Clement,
here, is very good; pray look in her Face, Dada, don't you think she is very good?
I see,
Harry,
said Mr.
Fenton,
that young as you are, you are a perfect Physiognomist. Why, pray Sir, said
Arabella,
is it, in earnest, your Opinion, that the Character of Mind or Manners, may, in any Measure, be gathered from the Form of the Countenance? Is not the World filled with Stories of the Deceit and Treachery of such false Appearances? You remember how
Horace
says that a prudent Mariner puts no Trust in the Gildings or Paintings of a Ship; such superficial Glossings, as one might think, ought, rather, to be suspected of an Intention to conceal the Rottenness of the Timber. And then, the Passage of the famous Physiognomists, at
Athens,
so often
