The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights--the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, ...the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.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 »
This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning displ...ay or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community--the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a b...etter order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conque...red neighbours. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
General education is the best preventive of the evils now most dreaded. In the civilized countries of the world, the question is h...ow to distribute most generally and equally the property of the world. As a rule, where education is most general the distribution of property is most general.... As knowledge spreads, wealth spreads. To diffuse knowledge is to diffuse wealth. To give all an equal chance to acquire knowledge is the best and surest way to give all an equal chance to acquire property.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Socialite women meet socialite men and mate and breed socialite children so that we can fund small opera companies and ballet trou...pes because there is no government subsidy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Were it good To set the exact wealth of all our states... All at one cast? to set so rich a main On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour? It were not good.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thou art alone (If thy rare qualities, sweet gentleness,... Thy meekness saintlike, wife-like government, Obeying in commanding, and thy parts Sovereign and pious else, could speak thee out) The queen of earthly queens.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »