The next summer I saw a sloop from Chatham dragging for anchors and chains just off this shore.... It is a singular employment, at... which men are regularly hired and paid for their industry, to hunt to-day in pleasant weather for anchors which have been lost,--the sunken faith and hope of mariners, to which they trusted in vain; now, perchance,... if the roadsteads of the spiritual ocean could be thus dragged, what rusty flukes of hope deceived and parted chain cables of faith might again be windlassed aboard! enough to sink the finder's craft, or stock new navies to the end of time. The bottom of the sea is strewn with anchors, some deeper and some shallower, and alternately covered and uncovered by the sand, perchance with a small length of iron cable still attached,--to which where is the other end? So many unconcluded tales to be continued another time. So, if we had diving-bells adapted to the spiritual deeps, we should see anchors with their cables attached, as thick as eels in vinegar, all wriggling vainly toward their holding-ground. But that is not treasure for us which another man has lost; rather it is for us to seek what no other man has found or can find,--not be Chatham men, dragging for anchors.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You were sent to get food, not treasure. You can't eat pieces of eight.... You place an absurd value on the cheapest of human comm...odities.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Weigh what loss your honor may sustain If with too credent ear you list his songs,... Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open To his unmastered importunity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which someone found and hid; then in his joy he goes and sells all that ...he has and buys that field.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"If you wish to be perfect, go, sell your possessions, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then ...come, follow me." When the young man heard this word, he went away grieving, for he had many possessions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but l...ay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »