You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.
Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.
Let all who build beware The load, the shock, the pressure Material can bear. So, when the buckled girder Lets down the grinding span, The blame of loss, or murder, Is laid upon the man. Not on the Stuff - the Man!
Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
They say money rule the world, you can’t pay God with it
I am not trying to do material which I cannot do full out.
Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.
I once worked it out - after $12 million, all millionaires are the same. That's because we're all humans, confined to human scale. How many homes can you live in? How many meals can you eat? You can have a living room the size of a cathedral, but you won't live in it. It's too big.
No Alchymy to saving.