There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.