Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold.
Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.
The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin.
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
Golden opportunities are nothing to laziness, but industry makes the commonest chances golden.