A Nice View

This man was skilled in his profession; he had pursued it for 30-odd years; he was frugal and industrious; undoubtedly of his long series of discoveries a fair percentage were valuable and are producing properties today. Yet he confessed his bank balance to be less than $500. Why was this? Simply and solely because he did not care. At heart it was entirely immaterial to him whether he ever owned a dollar above his expenses.

Stewart Edward White, writing about an old prospector met on a journey in the California mountains.