When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
More men are ruined by underestimating the value of money than by overestimating it. Let us, then, abandon the affectation of despising money, and frankly own its value.
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.
Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.
When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.