Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Works of Charles Sumner, Vol. 2
Wealth and children are the ornament of this present life but good works, which are permanent, are better, in the Sight of thy Lord, with respect to the reward, and better with respect to hope. - Koran, tr. Sale.
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