It's hard to make money in business; it's very difficult...and if your reward is relatively great, that's the way nature works. I don't see it's any more extraordinary for a man in business to accumulate a large fortune than a man in politics to attain high office.
I have known millionaires starving for lack of the nutriment which alone can sustain all that is human in man, and I know workmen...who revel in luxuries beyond the power of those millionaires to reachIt is the mind that makes the body rich. There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
Rich men should be thankful for one inestimable boon. They have it in their power during their lives to busy themselves in organizing benefactions from which the masses of their fellows will derive lasting advantage, and thus dignify their own lives.
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human