Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.


The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations (ed. 1866)


Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in...

Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in...

Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in...

Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in...