In A Country Well Governed Poverty Is Something To

Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires

If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; if you live according to opinion, you will never be rich

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.

It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.