Quotes about Scanty

stated this universal truth through these lines: I bargained with Life for a penny,   And Life would pay no more, However I begged at evening   When I counted my scanty store. For Life is a just employer,   He gives you what you ask, But once you have set the wages,   Why, you must bear the task. I worked for a menial's hire,   Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life,   Life would have willingly paid.

Save for the occasional use of cocaine, he had no vices, and he only turned to the drug as a protest against the monotony of existence when cases were scanty and the papers uninteresting.