MONEY AND PRIORITIES
Professor Agassiz, the naturalist, had declined to deliver a lecture before some lyceum or public society, on account of the inroads which previous lectures given by him had made upon his studies and thought. The gentleman who had been deputed to invite him continued to press the invitation, assuring him that the society was ready to pay him liberally for his services. Agassiz replied, “That is no inducement to me. I cannot afford to waste my time in making money.” 2500 Anecdotes for All Occasions, ed. Edmund Fuller (New York, Avenal Books, 1942)
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