"If at great things thou wouldst arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want."
"For the modern psychologist, … industry has remained as the only virtue—with its satellites, ambition and success—a conception of virtue which the Ancients would never have hesitated to relegate to the lowest of men, to pariahs and to slaves."
"Ambition is but Avarice on stilts and masked."
"There ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved."
"The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich."
"Most people would succeed in small things, if they were not troubled with great ambitions."
"Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires."