It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

No false knight or lying priest ever prospered, I believe, in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered then, only in following openly-declared purposes , and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has the nature of death and sin, just as beauty is associated with what has the nature of virtue and of life.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.