“Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.”
“It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.”
“The principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our conditiona desire which?comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go into the grave.”
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