Ulysses by James Joyce Chapter 2 Page 20

know yet what money is. Money is power. When you have lived as long as I have. I know, I know.

If youth but knew. But what does Shakespeare say? Put but money in thy purse.

Iago, Stephen murmured.

He lifted his gaze from the idle shells to the old man’s stare.

He knew what money was, Mr Deasy said. He made money. A poet, yes, but an Englishman too. Do you know what is the pride of the English? Do you know what is the proudest word you will ever hear from an Englishman’s mouth?

The seas’ ruler. His seacold eyes looked on the empty bay: it seems history is to blame: on me and on my words, unhating.

That on his empire, Stephen said, the sun never sets.