Though death-still, it has a voice which calls ceaselessly to those human hearts tuned to its messages: hostile and harsh, it draws and urges; repellent, it profligately awards health and wealth; inviting, it kills.
"The Desert Valley"
Jackson Gregory
They think of his loans merely as investments, and the more profligately extravagant are the terms and the amount, the better they like them.
"Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Vol. 2"
Alexis de Tocqueville