Grace makes its possessor irresistible. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Riches either serve or govern the possessor. [ Horace ]

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor. [ Milton ]

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly. [ Montaigne ]

Before we passionately wish for anything, we should carefully examine into the happiness of its possessor. [ Rochefoucauld ]

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at. [ Bovee ]

Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator. [ Greville ]

Yet even this hath this inconvenience in it - that it makes its possessor neglect the furnishing of the mind with nobleness. Nay, it oftentimes is a cause that the mind is ill. [ Feltham ]

For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too high a price. Wealth itself has no moral attribute. It is not money, but the love of money, which is the root of all evil. It is the relation between wealth and the mind and the character of its possessor which is the essential thing. [ Hillard ]