Material Gain

Famous quotes containing the words material and/or gain:

    “The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.”
    —Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)