At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys th...at do not turn to dross in one's hands.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in t...he younger ore and better veins of the mine--and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so--and now the dross is coming.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to admini...ster during life, will pass away "unwept, unhonored, and unsung," no matter to what uses he leave the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: "The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced." Such, in my opinion, is the true gospel concerning wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the rich and the poor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?... Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.-- Her lips suck forth my soul; see where it flies!-- Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for heaven be in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath." Must give--for what? for lead, hazard for lead?... This casket threatens. Men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages; A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »