Part 27 (1/2)
Mozart, the great coh money to bury him, but he has made the world richer
A rich mind and noble spirit will cast a radiance of beauty over the humblest home, which the upholsterer and decorator can never approach
Who would not prefer to be a millionaire of character, of contentar coins of a Croesus? Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his , and honest, trying to fashi+on our frail life after that of the h our pockets are often ely precious as it is eternally incorruptible
An Asiatic traveler tells us that one day he found the bodies of two men laid upon the desert sand beside the carcass of a camel They had evidently died froe store of jewels of different kinds, which they had doubtless been crossing the desert to sell in the markets of Persia
Thebut money is poorer than he He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he who is covetous is poor though he have millions There are riches of intellect, and no man with an intellectual taste can be called poor
He who has so little knowledge of hu but his own disposition aste his life in fruitless efforts, and riefs which he purposes to remove
He is rich as well as brave who can face poverty and e
We can so educate the will power that it will focus the thoughts upon the bright side of things, and upon objects which elevate the soul, thus foroodness which willand of always looking on the bright side of everything is a fortune in itself
He is rich who values a good na the ancient Greeks and Roht after than wealth Rome was imperial Rome no more when the imperial purple became an article of traffic
This is the evil of trade, as well as of partisan politics As E into enes was captured by pirates and sold as a slave His purchaser released hie of his household and of the education of his children He despised wealth and affectation, and lived in a tub ”Do you want anything?” asked Alexander the Great, forcibly i cheerfulness of the philosopher under such circuenes, ”I want you to stand out of ive reat conqueror, ”I would be Diogenes”
Brave and honest old They work for love, for honor, for character When Socrates suffered death rather than abandon his views of right ate the tortures of the poor Indians, they had no thought of money or country
They worked for the elevation of all that thought, and for the relief of all that suffered
”I don't want such things,” said Epictetus to the rich Roht of his contempt for money-wealth; ”and besides,” said the stoic, ”you are poorer than I am, after all You have silver vessels, but earthenware reasons, principles, appetites My dom is, and it furnishes me with abundant and happy occupation in lieu of your restless idleness All your possessions seereat to me Your desire is insatiate, mine is satisfied”
”Do you know, sir,” said a devotee of Ma?” ”Yes,” said the irritated but calm-spirited respondent, ”I do; and I know that it is all you are worth”
A bankrupt ht, said to his noble wife, ”My dear, I a we have is in the hands of the sheriff” After a few moments of silence the wife looked into his face and asked, ”Will the sheriff sell you?” ”Oh, no” ”Will the sheriff sellAll that is most valuable remains to us,--manhood, womanhood, childhood
We have lost but the results of our skill and industry We can make another fortune if our hearts and hands are left us”
What power can poverty have over a ho with a consciousness of untold riches of head and heart?
Paul was never so great as when he occupied a prison cell; and Jesus Christ reached the height of his success when, sony, and yet with triumphant satisfaction, ”It is finished”
”Character before wealth,” was the motto of Amos Lawrence, who had inscribed on his pocket-book, ”What shall it profit a ain the whole world and lose his own soul?”
If you make a fortune let every dollar of it be clean You do not want to see in it drunkards reel, orphans weep, s moan Your riches must not make others poorer and ates of Paradise, and knocked for entrance ”Who knocks?” deel ”Alexander”
”Who is Alexander?” ”Alexander,--the Alexander,--Alexander the Great,--the conqueror of the world” ”We know hiate; only the righteous enter here”
Don't start out in life with a false standard; a truly great man makes official position and money and houses and estates look so tawdry, so ht with our cheap laurels and gold _Millions look trifling beside character_
A friend of Professor Agassiz, an eminent practical man, once expressed his wonder that a man of such abilities should remain contented with such a assiz's reply ”I have no ti to enable a et rich and do his duty to his fellow-men at the same time”
Hoere the thousands of business o fire enabled to go into business at once, some into wholesale business, without encies said they were square men; that they had always paid one hundred cents on a dollar; that they had paid promptly, and that they were industrious and dealt honorably with all ood as a bank account _They drew on their character_ Character was the coin which enabled penniless rity did not burn up with their stores The best part of them was beyond the reach of fire and could not be burned