He is richest that has fewest wants. [ Proverb ]
'Tis not the fairest form that holds
The mildest, purest soul within;
'Tis not the richest plant that holds
The sweetest fragrance in. [ Dawes ]
Religion, richest favor of the skies. [ Cowper ]
The richest minds need not large libraries. [ Alcott ]
He is richest who is poorest in his desires. [ Seneca ]
Grace abused brings forth the foulest deeds,
As richest soil the most luxuriant weeds. [ William Cowper ]
The greatest packs are not always the richest. [ Proverb ]
Even bees, the little alms-men of spring bowers,
Know there is richest juice in poison-flowers. [ Keats ]
As timid violets lade the ambient air
With their heart's richest fragrance, unaware
The fragrance whispers that the flower is there. [ Anna Katharine Green ]
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. [ Thoreau ]
Good-nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Industry has annexed thereto the fairest fruits and the richest rewards. [ Barrow ]
He is richest who is content with the least; for content is the wealth of nature. [ Socrates ]
All that is enviable is not bought: love, genius, beauty, are divine gifts that the richest cannot acquire. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]
No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men. [ Langford ]
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 ]
The richest endowments of the mind are temperance, prudence, and fortitude. Prudence is a universal virtue, which enters into the composition of all the rest; and where she is not, fortitude loses its name and nature. [ Voltaire ]
The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds; and instead of vines and olives for the pleasure and use of man, produces to its slothful owner the most abundant crop of poisons. [ Hume ]
I have always a sacred veneration for any one I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher; because the richest minerals are ever found under the most ragged and withered surfaces of the earth. [ Swift ]
Liberty is the richest inheritance which man has received from the skies! When shall its sacred fire burn in every bosom, and kindling with the thrilling force of inspiration, spread from heart to heart and from mind to mind, and be the common privilege and birthright of every human being? [ Acton ]
There is this difference between those two temporal blessings, health and money: Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied: and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflect that the poorest man would not part with health for money, but that the richest would gladly part with all their money for heath. [ Colton ]