A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. – Henry David Thoreau

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions. – Frank Lloyd Wright

“We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.” – William James

This world is but a winery, Its host and master Father Time, Who caters only to those steep’d In dreams discordant, without rhyme. For people drink and race as though They were the steeds of mad desire; Thus some are blatant when they pray, And others frenzied to acquire. Few on this earth who savor … Continue reading→

“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” – Socrates

“As if there was much of anything in any human utterance, oral or written, except plagiarism! The kernel, the soul — let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances — is plagiarism. For substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a … Continue reading→