“Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.”
“Communism was a great system for making people equally poor - in fact, there was no better system in the world for that than communism. Capitalism made people unequally rich.”
“I knew what it was like to be poor, and that once you had become rich, anything was better than being poor again.”
“A poor original is better than a good imitation.”
“It is as necessary for a poor man to give away, as for a rich man. Many poor men are more devoted worshipers of Mammon than some rich men.”
“Contentment makes poor men rich, Discontent makes rich men poor.”