Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls; on finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold al...l that he had and bought it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, th...e policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician--these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Until the end of the Middle Ages, and in many cases afterwards too, in order to obtain initiation in a trade of any sort whatever-...-whether that of courtier, soldier, administrator, merchant or workman--a boy did not amass the knowledge necessary to ply that trade before entering it, but threw himself into it; he then acquired the necessary knowledge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bid her paint till day of doom, To this favour she must come.... Bid the merchant gather wealth, The usurer exact by stealth, The proud man beat it from his thought, Yet to this shape all must be brought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in g...eneral. The farmer philosophizes in terms of crops, soils, markets, and implements, the mechanic generalizes his experiences of wood and iron, the seaman reaches similar conclusions by his own special road; and if the scholar keeps pace with these it must be by an equally virile productivity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self- service popul...ace, and all our specious comforts--the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria--are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seam...an), and our own Ronald Reagan.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant,... The captains, merchant bankers, eminent men of letters, The generous patrons of art, the statesmen and the rulers, Distinguished civil servants, chairmen of many committees, Industrial lords and petty contractors, all go into the dark....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The farmer after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant. ...This result might well seem astounding. All this drudgery, from cockcrowing to starlight, for all these years, to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag, and removing from bad to worse. It is time to have the thing looked into, and with a sifting criticism ascertained who is the fool.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »