Money often costs too much.
That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.
The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
The triumphs of peace have been in some proximity to war. Whilst the hand was still familiar with the sword-hilt, whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated; the compression and tension of these stern conditions is a training for the finest and softest arts, and can rarely be compensated in tranquil times, except by some analogous vigor drawn from occupations as hardy as war.
Fear always springs from ignorance.
If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.
If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn’t be enough to go around.
I’ve earned all this money. I’ve worked for it. I didn’t cheat anybody. I didn’t issue junk bonds and put people out of work. I earned it. And I live relatively modestly given my level of success and wealth.
I don’t mind that I’m fat. You still get the same money.
I don’t wake up for less than $10,000 a day.
The waste of money cures itself, for soon there is no more to waste.
Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.
You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.
When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in the world. Now that I’m old . . . I know it is.
Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
In God we trust; all others must pay cash.
Undermine the entire economic structure of society by leaving the pay toilet door ajar so the next person can get in free.
A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.
I’m so poor I can’t even pay attention.
