• Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.

    Samuel Smiles: Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.
    Samuel Smiles (1866). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Charakter, Conduct and Perseverance”, p.311