"The rich man is always sold to..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Do not despair of life. You have no doubt force enough to overcome your obstacles. Think of the fox prowling through wood and field in a winter night for something to satisfy his hunger. Notwithstanding cold and the hounds and traps, his race survives. I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.”

“Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.”

“I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.”

“To me, the money is - it's certainly a wonderful thing. But it is in direct proportion to how you're able to bless yourself and bless others with it.”

“Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned is six, turned again it is seven and threepence, and so on, till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. He that kills a breeding sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds.”

“No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.”

“The sage acts without taking credit. He accomplishes without dwelling on it. He does not want to display his worth.”

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty or mercy which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful till it became risky.”

“How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people.”