Capital acquisition

We go to gain a little patch of ground
That hath in it no profit but the name.

No fixed capital can yield any revenue but by means of a circulating capital.

With artists and virtuosi of every kind, … what they earn should become their capital, whereas they recklessly regard it as mere interest and thus end in ruin. On the other hand, those who possess inherited wealth at least know at once and quite correctly what is capital and what is interest.