“Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth”

“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.”

“I would as soon leave to my son a curse as the almighty Dollar”

“If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it form him”

“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”

“What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?”