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~ The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving ~ ~ For socialists, not just the wealth, but the guilt, must be redistributed ~ ~ When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into the deeper part of our being. At that time, we are able to bring to the fore the wealth that we have deep within us ~ ~ Contentment is natural wealth, LUXURY is artificial poverty. ~ ~ The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles ~ ~ Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous. ~ ~ Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. ~ ~ If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. ~ ~ Real wealth is ideas plus energy. ~ ~ It is necessary to take an active part in†politics†to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth. ~ ~ Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks. ~ ~ These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness ~ ~ My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university. ~ ~ The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered. ~ ~ If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never. ~ ~ Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world. ~ ~ Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration. ~ ~ There is...an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents.... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy. ~ ~ For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight. ~ ~ Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. ~ ~ Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth. ~ ~ Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so -bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour. ~ ~ Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses. ~ ~ Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness. ~ ~ For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight. ~ ~ In Las Vegas, people seem to believe, the prosperity spawned by tourism and gaming can make them whole, financially and spiritually. Las Vegas now melds fun, work, and wealth, showing a path toward the brightest vistas of the postindustrual world. It is the first city of the twenty-first century. ~ ~ He that loseth wealth, loseth much; he that loseth friends, loseth more; but he that loseth his spirit loseth all. ~ ~ No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth. ~ ~ Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith. ~ ~ Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous. ~ |
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