'Painting and Culture' p. 56
Search for the Real and Other Essays (1948)
“He taught us by example to place little emphasis on personal material gain…his aim was to bequeath to posterity the riches of his brain and the wealth of his soul.”
The Manila Tribune. April 19, 1928.
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An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
Context: Could not a boy be taught the elements of astronomy at the sole cost of using his eyes and his brain; taught slowly, certainly, and not wearied with too much at once? Some would learn more than others; but all would learn something. This is real science, real knowledge, which will make a boy wiser, and probably better too. He will learn to observe carefully, and not to be deceived, as we sometimes are, by appearances.

Quoted in Notker's The Deeds of Charlemagne (translated 2008 by David Ganz)

“Every person is worthy of an infinite wealth of love — the beauty of his soul knows no limit.”
Glimpses of Bengal http://www.spiritualbee.com/tagore-book-of-letters/ (1921)

1790s, Letter to the Addressers (1792)
Context: It is from a strange mixture of tyranny and cowardice that exclusions have been set up and continued. The boldness to do wrong at first, changes afterwards into cowardly craft, and at last into fear. The Representatives in England appear now to act as if they were afraid to do right, even in part, lest it should awaken the nation to a sense of all the wrongs it has endured. This case serves to shew that the same conduct that best constitutes the safety of an individual, namely, a strict adherence to principle, constitutes also the safety of a Government, and that without it safety is but an empty name. When the rich plunder the poor of his rights, it becomes an example of the poor to plunder the rich of his property, for the rights of the one are as much property to him as wealth is property to the other and the little all is as dear as the much. It is only by setting out on just principles that men are trained to be just to each other; and it will always be found, that when the rich protect the rights of the poor, the poor will protect the property of the rich. But the guarantee, to be effectual, must be parliamentarily reciprocal.

c. 1960
Source: 1960 - 1968, Dialogues – conversations with.., quotes, c. 1960, pp. 154-155

“His best companions, innocence and health;
And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.”
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 61.