Lack of Attention to Money Matters Impedes Progress

"Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself." -- William Cobbett

Trouble Brings Financial Brilliance, Wealth Dullness

"Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it." -- Horace