A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want, l...ike an armed warrior.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property, out of new respect for his nature. Especially he hates what he has if he see... that it is accidental,--came to him by inheritance, or gift, or crime; then he feels that it is not having; it does not belong to him, has no root in him and merely lies there because no revolution or no robber takes it away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While you have a thing it can be taken from you ... but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is... yours then for ever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber ass...ails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The shifting islands! who would not be willing that his house should be undermined by such a foe! The inhabitant of an island can ...tell what currents formed the land which he cultivates; and his earth is still being created or destroyed. There before his door, perchance, still empties the stream which brought down the material of his farm ages before, and is still bringing it down or washing it away,--the graceful, gentle robber!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means ...of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »