"I love," he said, "accumulating dollars and bank notes, and my enjoyment is in counting them; if my relatives who will inherit my fortune, take as much pleasure in spending it as I have had in making it, they will be quite welcome to their joy." Not many people, I fancy, will agree with the old bachelor's view of life.

I once suggested to a multi-millionaire of New York that it was time for him to retire from active work, leaving his sons to carry on his business.

He told me that he would be unhappy without work and that he enjoyed the demands his business made on him each day.
Many a man's life has been shortened by his retiring from business.

It is the mind rather than the body that lives, and apart from their business these men have no thoughts and therefore no life.

A man's idea of happiness is greatly governed by his personal tastes, and is influenced by his environment, his education and the climate.