“If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.”
“If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.”
“The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.”
“Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.”
“Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.”
“It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.”
“'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.”
“As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.”
“The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.”
“Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.”
“Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.”
“That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.”
“Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.”
“Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.”
“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”
“If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.”
“A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.”
“Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.”
“The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.”
“I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.”
“Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.”
“Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.”
“He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.”
“For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.”
“You may have tangible wealth untold, caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you could never be; I know someone who told stories to me.”
“Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.”
“He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.”
“Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.”
“Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.”
“Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.”