Try it as ye try the paltrier thing, making of money!
"In-Darkest-England-and-the-Way-Out"
Booth, William
The distinction between you is that he makes himself the central point, but you the spirit; or that you cut your identity in two and exalt your "proper self," the spirit, to be ruler of the paltrier remainder, while he will hear nothing of this cutting in two, and pursues spiritual and material interests just as he pleases.
"The Ego and His Own"
Max Stirner
If one of the meanest of human conditions is conscious heroism, paltrier yet is heroism before the fact, incapable of self realization!
"The Marquis of Lossie"
George MacDonald