Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristicks of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Seneca·65 ADIt is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the one who hankers after more.
Theodore Roosevelt·1900Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits—the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.
EpicurusThe wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity. (15)
