"A little more money won't do you any good, because daughters can use up ten percent more than a man can make in any normal occupation regardless of the amount.  That's a widely experienced but previously unformulated law of nature, to be known henceforth as 'Harshaw's Law.' But, Captain, real wealth, on the scale that causes its owner to hire a battery of finaglers to hold down his taxes, would ground you just as certainly as resigning would."