Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. . . . He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
Source: The Conduct of Life, Wealth, 1860.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25 1803-1882), US philosopher, poet, essayist; He was the main spokesman of his time for moral optimism and belief in the individual: Self-Reliance, 1844.