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)

“Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.”
—Jean Rostand (1894–1977)