Material interests are not the only guiding light.

When speculators have once entered Wall Street, they never leave it except in a pine box or a rosewood case, according to circumstances.

Amid the war the capitalists were asserting national necessity.

Gold, or at least the prospect of it, saved him, then killed him.

“John D Rockefeller read his Bible religiously, but kept his ledger in a different drawer.

I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism—religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality.

Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith

Happiness does not come from consumption of things

The values of human solidarity that once drove our quest for a humane society seem to have been replaced, or are being threatened, by a crass materialism and pursuit of social goals of instant gratification.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are

The works and customs of mankind do not seem to be very suitable material to which to apply scientific induction.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.