Generous man Quote by Charles Dickens

“While the alchemist of old sought to turn lead into gold, the modern alchemist has a more noble dream: to turn men from rot…

— Agona Apell

“A man acquainted with God has more power than any earthly potentate. Gold can’t do everything.”

— D.L. Moody

“When a man is rich, whether in gold or in knowledge, he must treat the poverty of others with consideration.”

— Amin Maalouf

“They wonder much to hear that gold which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men…

— Thomas More

“And yet surely to alchemy this right is due, that it may be compared to the husbandman whereof Aesop makes the fable, that when…

— Francis Bacon

“And what went wrong when other alchemists tried to make gold and were unable to do so?" "They were looking only for gold his…

— Paulo Coelho

“men are developed the same way gold is mined. When gold is mined, several tons of dirt must be moved to get an ounce…

— Renee Swope

I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold…

— Benjamin Franklin

“It is the goldsmith who can assay the gold.”

— Idries Shah

“There are some who complain most energetically and inconsolably of any, because they are, as they say, doing their duty. I also have in…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is hard to know what other way men can come to truth, to lay hold of it, if they do not dig and…

— John Locke

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

— Arthur Schopenhauer