After running over a lot of different thoughts, pick out one to be digested thoroughly that day.
Ponder a principle and see how it affects your core!
What difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man’s safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is anther’s and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already. You ask what is the proper limit to a person’s wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.
It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the one who hankers after more.
two men can have very modest means. One feels extreme lack…why? Desire for more.
What is the proper limit to a person’s wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.
Essential
Enough