Pension never enriched young man.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story.

Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.

In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not everyone's greed.

People spend money when and where they feel good.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

There are three great friends: an old wife, and old dog, and ready money.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

The most popular labor-saving device is still money.

The man who earns a million, but destroys his health in the process is not really a success.