“Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence”
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“Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence”
“Property is the fruit of labor - property is desirable - it is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise”
“Contentment is the only real wealth”
“Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own”
“Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate”
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest”
“The world asks, what does a man own? Christ, how does he use it?”
“If we think that heaven is our country, we should send our wealth thither rather than reatin it here, where on our sudden daparture it will be lost to us”
“What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?”
“Having nothing, nothing can he lose.”
“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”
“In our good works nothing is our own”
“Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth”
“If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it form him”
“I would as soon leave to my son a curse as the almighty Dollar”
“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.”
“Beware of the doctor, whose wife sells cemetery plots, whose brother owns a granite quarry, and whose father deals in shovels”
“He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth”
“Love is the only gold. ”
“Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other”