
“He who has nothing—it has been said many times—has nothing to lose but his chains.”
Prologue
Wallenstein (1798), Prologue - Wallensteins Lager (Wallenstein's Camp)
“He who has nothing—it has been said many times—has nothing to lose but his chains.”
“He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.”
“The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.”
"Christmas in the Dark" in Ladies Home Journal (December 1906)
Context: The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart. We sightless children had the best of eyes that day in our hearts and in our finger-tips. We were glad from the child's necessity of being happy. The blind who have outgrown the child's perpetual joy can be children again on Christmas Day and celebrate in the midst of them who pipe and dance and sing a new song!
Kulturphilosophie (1923), Vol. 2 : Civilization and Ethics
“The man who has a dogmatic creed has more time left for his business.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 49