There are degrees of greed, and also motives of greed. They who are greedy for money alone, which they even bury in the earth in storerooms, seem to themselves to stay in the little rooms where their riches are, and there, in fact, to be plagued by mice the size of mountains, so that they will withdraw from there. Yet they do not go away until they are wearied, when they finally roll away from these rooms, their graves. 1747, the 24th day of December.