Money often costs too much.
Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.
Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs.
We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves…
Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
More and more these days I find myself pondering how to reconcile my net income with my gross habits.
The man who never has money enough to pay his debts has too much of something else.
finally know what distinguishes man from other beasts: financial worries.
In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.
Undermine the entire economic structure of society by leaving the pay toilet door ajar so the next person can get in free.
Philanthropic efforts are among the best rewards you can have for a life well lived.
Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.
Today, there are three kinds of people: the have’s, the have-not’s, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-have’s.
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
There comes a point where it doesn’t matter how many zeroes are at the end of your bank account.
A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way.
Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.
The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles’ heel. But if you don’t need money and you don’t need fame, then you’re free.
We are not the sum of our possessions.
