Rich, not gaudy. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

Tithe, and be rich. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Widows are always rich. [ Proverb ]

Rich men have no faults. [ Proverb ]

A snow year, a rich year. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Rich men long to be richer. [ Proverb ]

Why should a rich man steal? [ Proverb ]

A rich friend is a treasure. [ Proverb ]

Rich with the spoils of time. [ Sir T. Browne ]

Rich the treasure,
Sweet the pleasure;
Sweet is pleasure after pain. [ John Dryden ]

Good workmen are seldom rich. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

As rich as a new-shorn sheep. [ Proverb ]

He is rich that is satisfied. [ Proverb ]

Love of wit makes no man rich. [ Proverb ]

I'd rather be rich than stupid. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Rich folk have lots of friends. [ Proverb ]

The rich need not beg a welcome. [ Proverb ]

The rich never want for kindred. [ Proverb ]

No legacy is so rich as honesty. [ William Shakespeare ]

Covetous men are shamefully rich. [ Proverb ]

He only is rich who owns the day. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Change generally pleases the rich. [ Horace ]

A rich rogue; two shirts and a rag. [ Proverb ]

Giving is the business of the rich. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

He is rich enough who has no wants. [ Italian Proverb ]

All strive to give to the rich man. [ Proverb ]

They are rich who have true friends. [ Proverb ]

Always you are to be rich next year. [ Proverb ]

God help the rich, the poor can beg. [ Proverb ]

Poor and liberal, rich and covetous. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He is rich enough that wants nothing. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The rich knows not who is his friend. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The poor must dance as the rich pipe. [ German Proverb ]

He that gets out of debt, grows rich. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Riches seldom make their owners rich. [ Dr. Johnson ]

No good man ever became suddenly rich. [ Syrus ]

Adversity makes wise, though not rich. [ Proverb ]

Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall. [ Tupper ]

The rich poor man is emphatically poor. [ Proverb ]

The rich man's son inherits cares;
The bank may break, the factory burn,
A breath may burst his bubble shares,
And soft, white hands could hardly earn
A living that would serve his turn. [ Lowell ]

For to give is the business of the rich. [ Goethe ]

It is the mind that makes the body rich. [ William Shakespeare ]

Rich men's spots are covered with money. [ Proverb ]

Genius is only as rich as it is generous. [ Thoreau ]

A poor man's cow dies a rich man's child. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The prince, who kept the world in awe.
The judge, whose dictate fix'd the law.
The rich, the poor, the great, the small,
Are levelled: death confounds them all. [ Gay ]

Covetous men's chests are rich, not they. [ Proverb ]

He is rich who wishes no more than he has. [ Cicero ]

Death robs the rich and relieves the poor. [ J. L. Basford ]

It is the mind that maketh good or ill.
That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. [ Spenser ]

If all were rich, gold would be penniless. [ Bailey ]

One is rich when one is sure of the morrow. [ Chevalier ]

Who hath not heard the rich complain
Of surfeits, and corporeal pain?
He barred from every use of wealth.
Envies the ploughman's strength and health. [ Gay ]

No man is rich enough to buy back his past. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Rich men have often the hearts of poor men. [ Proverb ]

It is better to live rich than to die rich. [ Johnson ]

On the rich quilt sinks with becoming woe,
Wrapt in a gown, for sickness and for show. [ Pope ]

Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn.
Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute.
Are half so sweet as tender human words. [ Barry Cornwall ]

Wise and good is better than rich and great. [ Proverb ]

To be thought rich is as good as to be rich. [ Thackeray ]

He bore a simple wild-flower wreath:
Narcissus, and the sweet brier rose;
Vervain, and flexile thyme, that breathe
Rich fragrance; modest heath, that glows
With purple bells; the amaranth bright.
That no decay, nor fading knows.
Like true love's holiest, rarest light;
And every purest flower, that blows,
In that sweet time, which Love most blesses,
When spring on summer's confines presses. [ Thomas Love Peacock ]

Make me a prophet, and I will make you rich. [ Italian Proverb ]

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. [ Bacon ]

Make me a soothsayer and I'll make you rich. [ Proverb ]

Beauty too rich for use; for earth too dear. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]

To heal divisions, to relieve the oppressed.
In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd. [ Homer ]

A rascal grown rich has lost all his kindred. [ Proverb ]

And to hie him home, at evening's close.
To sweet repast, and calm repose.
* * *
From toil he wins his spirits light.
From busy day the peaceful night;
Rich, from the very want of wealth,
In heaven's best treasures, peace and health. [ Gray ]

To the noble mind
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

The rich are trustees under God for the poor. [ Proverb ]

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

Fools and obstinate men make the lawyers rich. [ Proverb ]

You will never get your revenge of a rich man. [ Proverb ]

We are bound to be honest, but not to be rich. [ Proverb ]

It is brave scrambling at the rich man's dole. [ Proverb ]

The learned is happy nature to explore,
The fool is happy that he knows no more;
The rich is happy in the plenty given.
The poor contents him with the care of Heaven. [ Pope ]

The rich follow wealth, and the poor the rich. [ Proverb ]

Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar. [ Emerson ]

A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich. [ Mrs. Browning ]

Rich in lands, rich in money placed at interest [ Horace ]

No man was ever as rich as all men ought to be. [ Old saying ]

Give what thou canst, without thee we are poor;
And with thee rich, take what thou wilt away. [ Cowper ]

Harvest will come, and then every farmers rich. [ Proverb ]

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. [ Goldsmith ]

With equal foot (rich friend), impartial Fate
Knocks at the cottage and the palace gate;
Life's span forbids thee to extend thy cares
And stretch thy hopes beyond thy destined years:
Night soon will seize, and you must quickly go
To storied ghosts and Pluto's house below. [ Horace ]

O love, they die, in yon rich sky.
They faint on hill or field or river:
Our echoes roll from soul to soul.
And grow forever and forever.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying. [ Tennyson ]

Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,
Brags of his substance, not of ornament:
They are but beggars that can count their worth. [ William Shakespeare ]

A rich man is an unjust man, or the heir of one. [ Proverb ]

God give me a rich husband, though he be an ass. [ Proverb ]

If you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich wife. [ Michelet ]

Fat paunches make lean pates, and dainty bits
Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits. [ William Shakespeare, Love's Labor Lost ]

Love-thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers. [ William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act 1, Sc. 1 ]

Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor:
For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich;
And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
So honor peereth in the meanest habit. [ William Shakespeare ]

Joy is an exchange.
Joy flies monopolies; it calls for two:
Rich fruit, heaven-planted, never plucked by one. [ Edward Young ]

Joy is an import; joy is an exchange;
Joy flies monopolists: it calls for two;
Rich fruit! Heaven planted! never plucked by one. [ Young ]

Nobody should be rich but those who understand it. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

A mere madness to live like a wretch and die rich. [ Burton ]

No one is rich enough to do without his neighbour. [ Danish Proverb ]

No estate can make him rich that has a poor heart. [ Proverb ]

O happy unowned youths! your limbs can bear
The scorching dog-star and the winter's air,
While the rich infant, nursed with care and pain,
Thirsts with each heat and coughs with every rain! [ Gay ]

Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches! [ Emerson ]

A love-tint flushes the wind-flower's cheek,
Rich melodies gush from the violet's beak.
On the rifts of the rock, the wild columbines grow.
Their heavy honey-cups bending low. [ Sarah Helen Whitman ]

Great industry and little conscience make one rich. [ German Proverb ]

He who has a dread of the devil does not grow rich. [ Italian Proverb ]

Wine maketh a man act like an ass in a rich pasture. [ Zahir Ad-din ]

A lamb is as dear to a poor man as an ox to the rich. [ Proverb ]

Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned. [ Proverb ]

It is very pretty to see a poor man give to the rich. [ Proverb ]

In love, one who ceases to be rich begins to be poor. [ Chamfort ]

He who has good health is rich, and does not know it. [ Italian Proverb ]

Rich men and fortunate men have need of much prudence. [ Proverb ]

He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. [ Bible ]

There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one,
Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on. [ Lowell ]

It is the diligent hand and head alone that maketh rich. [ Smiles ]

He is rich enough that needs neither flatter nor borrow. [ Proverb ]

Rich men feel misfortunes that fly over poor men's heads. [ Proverb ]

If a man wishes to become rich he must appear to be rich. [ Goldsmith ]

The rich fool is like a pig that is choked by its own fat. [ Confucius ]

Honesty is the poor man's pork and the rich man's pudding. [ Proverb ]

Beggars are the vermin that attach themselves to the rich.

Charity gives itself rich; covetousness hoards itself poor. [ German Proverb ]

To be rich be diligent; move on
Like heavens great movers that enrich the earth;
Whose moment's sloth would show the world undone;
And make the spring straight bury all her birth.
Rich are the diligent who can command Time - nature's stock. [ Davenant ]

The rich widow cries with one eye, and laughs with the other. [ Proverb ]

The brother had rather see his sister rich, than make her so. [ Proverb ]

Riches are as a stronghold in the imagination of the rich man. [ Solomon ]

He that would be rich in a year will be hanged in half a year. [ Proverb ]

Without economy none can be rich, and with it few can be poor. [ Johnson ]

It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich. [ Juvenal ]

The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor. [ Proverb ]

He is the rich man who can avail himself of all men's faculties. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Better live in a poor hovel, than be buried in a rich sepulchre. [ Proverb ]

A thief passes for a gentleman, when stealing has made him rich. [ Proverb ]

Pride becomes not a rich man, but is insupportable in a poor man. [ Proverb ]

It is the riches of the mind only that make a man rich and happy. [ Proverb ]

O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth. [ Saadi ]

Rich in fit epithets, blest in the lovely marriage of pure words. [ Anthony Brewer ]

It is more pitiable once to have been rich than not to be rich now. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Few men are both rich and generous; fewer are both rich and humble. [ Cardinal Manning ]

The rich and poor meet together: the Lord is the maker of them all. [ Bible ]

Rich men are indeed rather possessed by their money than possessors. [ Burton ]

For one rich man that is content, there are an hundred that are not. [ Proverb ]

A woman who is beautiful, good, rich, and wise, is four stories high. [ French Proverb ]

An ugly woman in a rich habit set out with jewels nothing can become. [ Dryden ]

I too was once a youth with curly locks, rich in courage and in hopes. [ Lortzing ]

Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat. [ Proverb ]

Wine makes a poor man rich in imagination, a rich man poor in reality. [ Edward Parsons Day ]

Poor men may think well, but rich men may both think well and do well. [ Proverb ]

Rich men without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces. [ Solon ]

The universe would not be rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man. [ St. Gregory ]

Riches have made mair men covetous than covetousness has made men rich. [ Scotch Proverb ]

Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man. [ Horace Mann ]

Flatter not the rich; neither do thou appear willingly before the great. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

Little shame, little conscience, and much industry, will make a man rich. [ Proverb ]

Better be poor and live safe at land, than be rich and perish in the sea. [ Proverb ]

Riches have made more covetous men, than covetousness hath made rich men. [ Proverb ]

Sympathy is the solace of the poor, but for the rich there is consolation. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]

The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and He addeth no sorrow with it. [ Proverbs x. 22 ]

Covetous rich men are not so well fed, clothed, or respected, as other men. [ Proverb ]

He that is needy when he is married, shall scarce be rich when he is buried. [ Proverb ]

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse. [ Madame Swetchine ]

The perfect love of God knoweth no difference between the poor and the rich. [ Pacuvius ]

If the poor man cannot always get meat, the rich man cannot always digest it. [ Henry Giles ]

No man ever became, or can become, largely rich merely by labour and economy. [ John Ruskin ]

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich. [ Lavater ]

Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night, as a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear. [ William Shakespeare ]

Change of fashions is the tax which industry imposes on the vanity of the rich. [ Chamfort ]

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. [ Colton ]

He that is poor, all his kindred scorn him; he that is rich, all are kin to him. [ Proverb ]

The poor man's penny unjustly detained, is a coal of fire in a rich man's purse. [ Proverb ]

The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred. [ L. E. Landon ]

Neatness is an inheritance to which the poor can lay claim equally with the rich. [ H. Greenough ]

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. [ Beecher ]

A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. [ Shenstone ]

The dreariest poverty is that of the heart; banish this, and we shall all be rich. [ Bovee ]

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich. [ Seneca ]

Every one is weary: the poor in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

And thou my minde aspire to higher things; Grow rich in that which never taketh rust. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Rich honesty dwells like a miser, in a poor house, as your pearl in your foul oyster. [ William Shakespeare ]

A poor man who aspires to ape the manners and habits of the rich, is sure to be ruined. [ Phaedrus ]

Put a poor man's penny and a rich man's penny into a purse, and they'll come out alike. [ Proverb ]

They who lie soft and warm in a rich estate seldom come to heat themselves at the altar. [ South ]

Even the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, and trodden weeds send out a rich perfume. [ Addison ]

Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit. [ Johnson ]

Not all the pumice of the polish'd town
Can smooth the roughness of the barnyard clown; Rich, honor'd, titled, he betrays his race
By this one mark - he's awkward in his face. [ Holmes ]

Reckon what is in a man, not what is on him, if you would know whether he is rich or poor. [ Ward Beecher ]

He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand; but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. [ Bible ]

However rich or elevated, a nameless something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune. [ Horace ]

Pale death enters with impartial step the cottages of the poor and the palaces of the rich. [ Horace ]

The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking. [ Cowper ]

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. [ Alexander Smith ]

Young, one is rich in all the future that he dreams; old, one is poor in all the past he regrets. [ Rochepedre ]

The change of fashions is the tax that the industry of the poor levies on the vanity of the rich. [ Chamfort ]

He is rich whose income is more than his expenses; and he is poor whose expenses exceed his income. [ Bruyere ]

The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all. [ Talleyrand ]

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is, by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he was poor. [ Sir W. Temple ]

They that hold the greatest farms pay the least rent (applied to rich men that are unthankful to God). [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit, and a rich monument is one embroidered. [ Thomas Fuller ]

What, though thou wert rich and of high esteem, dost thou yield to sorrow because of thy loss of fortune? [ Hitopadesa ]

No man is rich whose expenditures exceed his means; and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings. [ Haliburton ]

No man is rich whose expenditure exceeds his means; and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings. [ Haliburton ]

He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want. [ Bible ]

There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches. [ Bible ]

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. [ Bishop Hall ]

Labor not to be rich; * * * for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. [ Bible ]

One cause of the insufficiency of riches (to produce happiness) is, that they very seldom make their owner rich. [ Johnson ]

Very great benefactors to the rich, or those whom they call people at their ease, are your persons of no consequence. [ Steele ]

With parsimony a little is sufficient, and without it nothing is sufficient, whereas frugality makes a poor man rich. [ Seneca ]

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought Beauty too rich to go forth upon the earth without a meet alloy. [ George MacDonald ]

May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ! [ Plato ]

No man can become largely rich by his personal toil, but only by discovery of some method of taxing the labour of others. [ John Ruskin ]

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man. [ William Shakespeare ]

The beloved of the Almighty are the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich. [ Saadi ]

Knowledge is not a shop for profit or sale, but a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of men's estate. [ Bacon ]

If you could throw as an alms to those who would use it well the time that you fritter away, how many beggars would become rich! [ Elizabeth, Queen of Roumania ]

A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love. [ Shenstone ]

He that is not handsome at twenty, strong at thirty, wise at forty, rich at fifty, will never be handsome, strong, wise, or rich. [ Proverb ]

Ideas once planted in the brain fructify, and bear their harvest more or less bountiful and rich as they are fertilized by thought. [ Bartol ]

Simple diet is best; for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other. [ Pliny ]

No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful. [ George MacDonald ]

In goodness, rich men should transcend the poor, as clouds the earth; raised by the comfort of the sun to water dry and barren grounds. [ Tourneur ]

Wherever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man. [ Pope ]

In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race. [ Zimmermann ]

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without culture, so the mind without cultivation can never produce good fruit. [ Seneca ]

If we are rich with the riches which we neither give nor enjoy, we are rich with the riches which are buried in the caverns of the earth. [ Veeshnoo Sarma ]

It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods. [ Seneca ]

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection, - they have many friends and few enemies. [ Wendell Phillips ]

Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest. [ Ouida ]

If you had a school for professional fireworks people, I don't think you could cover fuses in just one class. It's just too rich a subject. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty. [ Lord Kames ]

If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee. [ William Shakespeare ]

The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least, - the privilege of making them happy. [ Colton ]

The poorer life or the rich one are but the larger or smaller (very little smaller) letters in which we write the apophthegms and golden sayings of life. [ Carlyle ]

There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen nor never shall be. [ Bishop Hall ]

Of all pure things, purity in the acquisition of riches is the best. He who preserves purity in becoming rich is really pure, not he who is purified by water. [ Manu ]

Genius is only as rich as it is generous. If it hoards, it impoverishes itself. What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have leisure and a quiet mind. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. We are bought by the enemy with the treasure in our own coffers. [ Burke ]

We see but the outside of a rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time consuming herself. [ Izaak Walton ]

The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil. [ St. Augustine ]

When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means. [ Ben Jonson ]

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. The rich are always advising the poor; but the poor seldom venture to return the compliment. [ Sir Arthur Helps ]

That rich man is great who thinketh not himself great because he is rich; the proud man (who is the poor man) braggeth outwardly but beggeth inwardly; he is blown up, but not full. [ S. Hieron ]

Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords. [ Rousseau ]

No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. [ Beecher ]

Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all - the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved. [ Mark Twain's last words, written on a note by his death bed ]

Leisure and solitude are the best effect of riches, because mother of thought. Both are avoided by most rich men, who seek company and business, which are signs of being weary of themselves. [ Sir W. Temple ]

He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to the masterpieces of art and nature is the problem of civilisation. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Heaven is the day of which grace is the dawn; the rich, ripe fruit of which grace is the lovely flower; the inner shrine of that most glorious temple to which grace forms the approach and outer court. [ Rev. Dr. Guthrie ]

The sun had not risen, but the vault of heaven was rich with the winning softness that brings and shuts the day, while the whole air was filled with the carols of birds, the hymns of the feathered tribe. [ James Fenimore Cooper ]

Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it. [ Carlyle ]

There is a Spanish proverb that a lapidary who would grow rich must buy of those who go to be executed, as not caring how cheap they sell; and sell to those who go to be married, as not caring how dear they buy. [ Fuller ]

He is the rich man who can avail himself of all men's faculties. He is the richest man who knows how to draw a benefit from the labors of the greatest number of men, - of men ia distant countries and in past times. [ Emerson ]

For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor. [ Napoleon I ]

Many shiver from want of defence against the cold; but there is vastly more suffering among the rich from absurd and criminal modes of dress, which fashion has sanctioned, than among the poor from deficiency of raiment. [ Channing ]

He hazards much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master, he that is only made wise by many shipwrecks; a miserable merchant, that is neither rich nor wise till he has been bankrupt. By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering. [ Roger Ascham ]

Nature's noblemen are everywhere, - in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman. [ Willis ]

Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much, by gaudy attire. Lysander knew this was in part true, and refused the rich garments that the tyrant Dionysius proffered to his daughters, saying that they were fit only to make unhappy faces more remarkable. [ Zimmermann ]

Without distinction, without calculation, without procrastination, love. Lavish it upon the poor, where it is very easy; especially upon the rich, who often need it most; most of all upon our equals, where it is very difficult, and for whom perhaps we each do least of all. [ Henry Drummond ]

Nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor. [ Voltaire ]

There are so many tender and holy emotions flying about in our inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, - that it is a happiness poetry was invented, which receives into its limbus all these incorporated spirits and the perfume of all these flowers. [ Richter ]

Let the foundation of thy affection be virtue, then make the building as rich and as glorious as thou canst; if the foundation be beauty or wealth, and the building virtue, the foundation is too weak for the building, and it will fall: happy is he, the palace of whose affection is founded upon virtue, walled with riches, glazed with beauty, and roofed with honor. [ Quarles ]

Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing social follies, adds rich specimens to our cabinets of character, dramatizes life for the unimaginative, daguerreotypes it for the unobservant, multiplies experience for the isolated or inactive, and cheers age, retirement and invalidism with an available and harmless solace. [ Tuckerman ]

Do you wish to become rich? You may become rich, that is, if you desire it in no half way, but thoroughly. A miser sacrifices all to his single passion; hoards farthings and dies possessed of wealth. Do you wish to master any science or accomplishment? Give yourself to it and it lies beneath your feet. Time and pains will do anything. This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come. [ F. W. Robertson ]

No process is so fatal as that which would cast all men in one mould. Every human being is intended to have a character of his own, to be what no other is, to do what no other can do. Our common nature is to be unfolded in unbounded diversities. It is rich enough for infinite manifestations. It is to wear innumerable forms of beauty and glory. Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influences to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach. [ Channing ]

We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the soul. It is not to be surprised by any communication. Nothing can be greater than it. Let those fear and those fawn who will. The soul is in her native realm; and it is wider than space, older than time, wide as hope, rich as love. Pusillanimity and fear she refuses with a beautiful scorn; they are not for her who putteth on her coronation robes, and goes out through universal love to universal power. [ Emerson ]