Work first and then rest. Work first, and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares, nor bind ledgers in enamel. - John Ruskin

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. Make them men first, and religious men afterwards, and all will be sound; but a knave's religion is always the rottenest thing about him.