“One’s own! what a charm there is in the words! How long it takes boy or man to find out their worth! How fast most of us hold on to them! Faster and more jealously the nearer we are to that general Home into which we can take nothing, but must go naked as we came into the world. When shall we learn that He who multiplieth possessions multiplieth troubles, and that the one single use of things which we call our own, is that they may be His who hath need of them.”
TOM HUGHES
“I am certain that the good of human life cannot lie in the possession of things which for one man to possess is for the rest to lose; but rather in things which all can possess alike, or where one man’s wealth promotes his neighbour’s.”
SPINOZA
“’This tent is mine,’ said Yussouf, ‘but no more
Than it is God’s; come in and be at peace.’”
LOWELL
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