Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it ...is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If in this wide world, teeming with abundant supplies for human want, to thousands of wretched creatures no choice is open, save b...etween starvation and sin, may we not justly say that there is something utterly wrong in the system that permits such things to be?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this coun...try who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we prudently save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical terms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perve...rsion and they are nowise different from one another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ordinary people think that talent must be always on its own level and that it arises every morning like the sun, rested and refres...hed, ready to draw from the same storehouse--always open, always full, always abundant--new treasures that it will heap up on those of the day before; such people are unaware that, as in the case of all mortal things, talent has its increase and decrease, and that independently of the career it takes, like everything that breathes ... it undergoes all the accidents of health, of sickness, and of the dispositions of the soul--its gaiety or its sadness.... As with our perishable flesh ... talent is obliged constantly to keep guard over itself, to combat, and to keep perpetually on the alert amid the obstacles that witness the exercise of its singular power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambiti...ous, that the harvest is still so abundant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. O...ver all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency ...in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The tract you have ceded will soon be surveyed and sold, and immediately afterwards will be occupied by a white population. You wi...ll soon be in a state of starvation. You will commit depredations upon the property of our citizens. You will be resisted, punished, perhaps killed. Now, is it not better peaceably to remove to a fine, fertile country, occupied by your own kindred, and where you can raise all the necessaries of life, and where game is yet abundant?... You have no right to stay, and you must go.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »