Tribulation is treasure in the nature of it, but it is not current money in the use of it, except we get nearer and nearer our home, heaven, by it.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."

[The Autumnal]

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

For the mayor, obviously it's great to have a lot of money in your treasure. But this amount of money, there's some danger in raising too much in that people start looking at you as a representative of big special interests.

Any voter with a healthy understanding of the flaws of human nature and who notices the vast amounts of money solicited and received by politicians cannot help but believe that we are unduly influenced by our benefactors' generosity,