Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.
Jean-Jacques RousseauMoney is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
Jean-Jacques RousseauSince men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which already exist, the only way in which they can preserve themselves is by uniting their separate powers in a combination strong enough to overcome any resistance, uniting them so that their powers are directed by a single motive and act in concert.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau