Let each morn be better than its eve, each morrow richer
than its yesterday. Man’s merit lies in service and virtue and not in the
pageantry of wealth and riches.
(Baha’u’llah, Lawh-i-Hikmat, The Baha’i Year
Book 1924-1925; Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas)