Смелость, инициатива, предприимчивость – как много они значат, - Theodore Dreiser

He would not wear the social shackles if it were possible to satisfy the needs of his heart and nature and still remain free and unfettered.

To the untraveled, territory other than their own familiar health is invariably fascinating. Next to love, it is the one thing which solaces and delights.

Few people have the sense of financial individuality strongly developed. They do not know what it means to be a controller of wealth, to have that which releases the sources of social action—its medium of exchange. They want money, but not for money's sake. They want it for what it will buy in the way of simple comforts, whereas the financier wants it for what it will control—for what it will represent in the way of dignity, force, power.