Wealth makes wit waver. [ Scotch Proverb ]
Great wealth, great care. [ Dutch Proverb ]
An encumbrance of wealth. [ D'Allainval ]
Little wealth, little care. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Wealth is best known by want. [ Proverb ]
Wealth wants not for worship. [ Proverb ]
Little wealth, little sorrow. [ Proverb ]
Golden roofs break men's rest. [ Seneca ]
Contentment is natural wealth. [ Socrates ]
Ability is a poor man's wealth. [ Matthew Wren ]
Limit your wants by your wealth. [ Proverb ]
Men get wealth and women keep it. [ Proverb ]
Neglect alone will destroy wealth. [ Pontanus ]
Oh, may I with myself agree,
And never covet what I see.
Content me with an humble shade,
My passions tamed, my wishes laid;
For, while our wishes wildly roll.
We banish quiet from the soul.
It is thus the busy beat the air,
And misers gather wealth and care. [ Dyer ]
Ill-gotten wealth is never stable. [ Euripides ]
All wealth is the product of labor. [ Locke ]
Wants keep pace with wealth always. [ J. G. Holland ]
Little wealth brings little trouble. [ Proverb ]
How blest the humble cotter's fate!
He woos his simple dearie;
The silly bogles, wealth, and state,
Can never make them eerie. [ Burns ]
The ungovernable passion for wealth. [ Ovid ]
I envy none the gilding of their woe. [ Young ]
A great fortune is a great servitude. [ Seneca ]
Riches seldom make their owners rich. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Bear wealth, poverty will bear itself. [ Proverb ]
Lack of desire is the greatest riches. [ Seneca ]
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 ]
Good health is infinitely above wealth. [ Proverb ]
Nor love, nor honor, wealth, nor power,
Can give the heart a cheerful hour
When health is lost. Be timely wise;
With health all taste of pleasure flies. [ Gay ]
Where there are friends there is wealth. [ Plaut ]
Poverty and wealth are comparative sins. [ Victor Hugo ]
Mean men admire wealth, great men glory. [ Proverb ]
We know that wealth well understood,
Hath frequent power of doing good;
Then fancy that the thing is done,
As if the power and will were one;
Thus oft the cheated crowd adore,
The thriving knaves that keep them poor. [ Gay ]
We frequently misplace esteem,
By judging men by what they seem,
To birth, wealth, power, we should allow
Precedence, and our lowest bow. [ Gay ]
We all covet wealth, but not its perils. [ Bruyere ]
Base wealth preferring to eternal praise. [ Homer ]
To purchase Heaven has gold the power?
Can gold remove the mortal hour?
In life can love be bought with gold?
Are friendship's pleasures to be sold?
No - all that's worth a wish - a thought.
Fair virtue gives unbribed, unbought.
Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind,
Let nobler views engage thy mind. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Toil of science swells the wealth of art. [ Schiller ]
Health without wealth is half a sickness. [ Proverb ]
What makes all doctrines plain and clear?
About two hundred pounds a year.
And that which was proved true before,
Prove false again? two hundred more. [ Butler ]
All foreign wisdom doth amount to this,
To take all that is given, whether wealth,
Or love, or language; nothing comes amiss;
A good digestion turneth all to health. [ Herbert ]
I have mental joys and mental health.
Mental friends and mental wealth,
I've a wife that I love and that loves me;
I've all but riches bodily. [ Wm. Blake ]
Few have wealth, but all must have a home. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Generosity is more charitable than wealth. [ Joseph Roux ]
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 ]
Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors. [ J. G. Holland ]
There are, while human miseries abound,
A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth,
Without one fool or flatterer at your board,
Without one hour of sickness or disgust. [ Armstrong ]
Let none admire
That riches grow in hell; that soil may best
Deserve the precious bane. [ Milton ]
These riches are possessed, but not enjoyed. [ Homer ]
Abundance is a blessing to the wise;
The use of riches in discretion lies:
Learn this, ye men of wealth - a heavy purse
In a fool's pocket is a heavy curse. [ Cumberland ]
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 ]
He that marries for wealth sells his liberty. [ Proverb ]
Perhaps he hath great projects in his mind,
To build a college, or to found a race,
An hospital, a church - and leave behind
Some dome surmounted by his meagre face,
Perhaps he fain would liberate mankind
Even with the very ore which makes them base;
Perhaps he would be wealthiest of his nation,
Or revel in the joys of calculation. [ Byron ]
Burn and not smoulder, win by worth,
Not rest content with a wealth that's dearth! [ Robert Browning ]
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home
Can be contented to applaud myself, with joy,
To see how plump my bags are and my barns. [ Ben Jonson ]
Then know, that I have little wealth to lose;
A man I am cross'd with adversity. [ William Shakespeare ]
Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace
If not, by any means get wealth and place. [ Pope ]
See what money can do: that can change
Men's manners; alter their conditions!
How tempestuous the slaves are without it!
O thou powerful metal! what authority
Is in thee! thou art the key to all mens
Mouths: with thee, a man may lock up the jaws
Of an informer; and without thee, he
Cannot open the lips of a lawyer. [ Richard Brome ]
These grains of gold are not grains of wheat!
These bars of silver thou canst not eat;
These jewels and pearls and precious stones
Cannot cure the aches in thy bones,
Nor keep the feet of death one hour
From climbing the stairways of thy tower. [ Longfellow ]
The rich follow wealth, and the poor the rich. [ Proverb ]
These hoards of wealth you can unlock at will. [ Wordsworth ]
O what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! [ William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor ]
Let wealth come in by comely thrift,
And not by any sordid shift;
It is haste makes waste;
Extremes have still their fault.
Who gripes too hard the dry and slippery sand,
Holds none at all, or little, in his hand. [ Herrick ]
Since all the riches of this world
May be gifts from the devil and earthly kings.
I should suspect that I worshipped the devil
If I thanked my God for worldly things. [ Wm. Blake ]
An angel face! its sunny wealth of hair,
In radiant ripples, bathed the graceful throat
And dimpled shoulders. [ Mrs. Osgood ]
Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice. [ Manuel Conde Lucanor ]
Great wealth and content seldom live together. [ Proverb ]
Can wealth give happiness? look round, and see
What gay distress! what splendid misery!
Whatever fortune lavishly can pour.
The mind annihilates, and calls for more. [ Young ]
Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar. [ Emerson ]
Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die,
But leave us still our old nobility. [ Lord J. Manners ]
Let those who hope for brighter shores no more,
Not mourn, but turning inland, bravely seek
What hidden wealth redeems the shapeless shore. [ Eugene Lee Hamilton ]
O happiness of blindness! now no beauty
Inflames my lust; no other's goods my envy,
Or misery my pity; no man's wealth
Draws my respect; nor poverty my scorn,
Yet still I see enough! man to himself
Is a large prospect, raised above the level
Of his low creeping thoughts; if then I have
A world within myself, that world shall be
My empire; there I'll reign, commanding freely,
And willingly obeyed, secure from fear
Of foreign forces, or domestic treasons. [ Denham ]
That I might live alone once with my gold!
Oh 't is a sweet companion I kind and true!
A man may trust it, when his father cheats him,
Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf.
That which makes all men false, is true itself. [ Jonson ]
Conscience and wealth are not always neighbors. [ Massinger ]
Wealth and content do not always live together. [ Proverb ]
Command your wealth, else that will command you. [ Proverb ]
For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill,
To feel those tempests which fly over ditches. [ Herbert ]
Flowers are Love's truest language; they betray,
Like the divining rods of Magi old,
Where precious wealth lies buried, not of gold,
But love - strong love, that never can decay! [ Park Benjamin ]
Wealth in the gross is death, but life diffused;
As poison heals, in just proportion used;
In heaps, like ambergrise, a stink it lies,
But well dispersed, is incense to the skies. [ Pope ]
Plenty has made me poor; wealth makes wit waver. [ Ovid ]
Be charitable before wealth maket thee covetous. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]
Know from the bounteous heavens all riches flow;
And what man gives, the gods by man bestow. [ Homer ]
And as great seamen, using all their wealth
And skills in Neptune's deep invisible paths.
In tall ships richly built and ribbed with brass,
To put a girdle round about the world. [ Geo. Chapman ]
If we from wealth to poverty descend,
Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend. [ Dryden ]
The greatest wealth is contentment with a little. [ Proverb ]
Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends,
An incarnation of fat dividends. [ Sprague ]
Therefore, if at great things thou wouldst arrive,
Get riches first, get wealth. [ Milton ]
Wealth comes and goes like smoke, like everything. [ Bret. Proverb ]
Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit,
Or what is worse, be left by it?
Why dost thou load thyself when thou 'rt to fly.
Oh, man! ordained to die?
Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high,
Thou who art under ground to lie?
Thou sow'st and plantest, but no fruit must see.
For death, alas! is reaping thee. [ Cowley ]
Wealth is like rheum, it falls on the weakest parts. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Worth without wealth is a good servant out of place. [ Proverb ]
Money, thou bane and bliss and source of woe,
Whence com'st thou, that thou art so fresh and fine?
I know thy parentage is base and low:
Man found thee poor and dirty in a mine. [ Herbert ]
How in the name of thrift doth he rake this together? [ William Shakespeare ]
Wealth ill acquired soon goes (goes with the stream). [ French Proverb ]
We can only possess wealth according to our capacity. [ John Ruskin ]
Poverty with honour is better than ill-gotten wealth. [ Proverb ]
The laborer is the author of all greatness and wealth. [ U. S. Grant ]
Wealth and honour can never cure a wounded conscience. [ Proverb ]
Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Fools! not to know how better, for the soul,
An honest half, than an ill-gotten whole:
How richer, he who dines on herbs, with health
Of heart, than knaves with all their wines and wealth. [ Hesiod ]
A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world. [ Mohammed ]
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. [ Franklin ]
For they say, if money go before, all ways do lie open. [ William Shakespeare ]
The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor. [ Sir James Mackintosh ]
Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. [ Emerson ]
Great wealth makes us neither more wise nor more healthy. [ Proverb ]
He that loses his wealth is wanted to have lost his wits. [ Proverb ]
Prudence is not poverty; it is the thorny road to wealth. [ Charles Reade ]
Our wisdom is no less at fortune's mercy than our wealth. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Contentment is natural wealth; luxury, artificial poverty. [ Socrates ]
The million covet wealth, but how few dream of its perils? [ John Neal ]
In marriage, as in other things, contentment excels wealth. [ Molière ]
He hath more faults than hairs, and more wealth than faults. [ Proverb ]
Wisdom no more consists in science than happiness in wealth. [ De Boufflers ]
Either wealth is much increased, or moderation is much decayed. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting. [ Benjamin Franklin ]
O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth. [ Saadi ]
That man has the fewest wants who is the least anxious for wealth. [ Publius Syrus ]
Time is lord of thee: Thy wealth, thy glory, and thy name are his. [ Thomas Love Peacock ]
By wisdom wealth is wen; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none. [ Bayard Taylor ]
A man may be happy here and hereafter, without much fame or wealth. [ Proverb ]
Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth. [ Rivarol ]
Worth hath been under-rated, ever since wealth hath been overvalued. [ Proverb ]
He that shews his wealth to a thief is the cause of his own pillage. [ Proverb ]
What must be the wealth that avarice, aided by power, cannot exhaust! [ James Otis ]
The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth. [ Cobbett ]
What makes the breaking of all oaths a holy duty? - food and clothes. [ Butler ]
You who follow wealth and power with unremitting ardour,
The more in this you look for bliss, you leave your view the farther. [ Burns ]
The greatest evidence of demoralization is the respect paid to wealth.
Whence you have got your wealth, nobody inquires; but you must have it. [ Juv ]
Diligence, frugality, and perseverance, are the leading steps to wealth. [ Downey ]
He who gives of his wealth before dying, prepares himself to suffer much. [ Italian Proverb ]
Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better. [ Johnson ]
Less coin, less care; to know how to dispense with wealth is to possess it. [ Reynard ]
Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others. [ Colton ]
Wealth lost, something lost; honour lost, much lost; courage lost, all lost. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase. [ Horace ]
Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. [ Ward Beecher ]
Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also. [ Cervantes ]
Wealth is an imperious mistress; she requires the whole heart and life of man. [ Laboulaye ]
By of what is the business of the world made up? Of the wealth of other people. [ Béroalde Verville ]
Care may acquire wealth, which, when acquired, care must guard and worry about. [ Quesnel ]
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. [ Colton ]
He is richest who is content with the least; for content is the wealth of nature. [ Socrates ]
Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet. [ H. W. Shaw ]
The lack of wealth is easily repaired; but the poverty of the soul is irreparable. [ Montaigne ]
His best companions innocence and health, and his best riches ignorance of wealth. [ Goldsmith ]
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty, by how little. [ W. K, Alger ]
The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed. [ Horace ]
Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind. [ Martin Luther ]
When wealthy, show thy wisdom not to be to wealth a servant, but make wealth serve thee. [ Sir J. Denham ]
Property is like snow; if it falleth level today, it will be blown into drifts tomorrow. [ Sinclair ]
Dame Nature gave him comeliness and health; and Fortune, for a passport, gave him wealth. [ Walter Harte ]
A man may as well expect to be well, and at ease without wealth, as happy without virtue. [ Proverb ]
Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty. [ Lowell ]
Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting. [ Lowell ]
It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave than to expend it like a gentleman. [ Colton ]
The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor roan's wealth, the prisoner's release. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy. [ Young ]
Children of wealth or want, to each is given One spot of green, and all the blue of heaven! [ O. W. Holmes ]
The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more. [ Horace ]
The clouds may drop down titles and estates, wealth may seek us; but wisdom must be sought. [ Young ]
There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty. [ Plutarch ]
It is better to live in a haunted forest than to live amongst relations after the loss of wealth. [ Hitopadesa ]
A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle. [ Socrates ]
You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king. [ Theodore Parker ]
There is nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a great one. [ Bruyere ]
Though the generous man care the least for wealth; yet he will be the most galled with the want of it. [ Proverb ]
Some books are drenched sands, on which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps, like a wrecked argosy. [ Adam Smith ]
Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]
He who loses wealth, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses more; but he that loses his courage, loses all. [ Cervantes ]
The proverb is true, that light gains make heavy purses; for light gains come often, great gains now and then. [ Bacon ]
A ring is a circle of vanity, worn on the finger to show off your wealth, and excite the envy of your neighbor. [ E. P. Day ]
He has lost his arms and deserted the cause of virtue who is ever eager and engrossed in increasing his wealth. [ Horace ]
Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates. [ H. W. Shaw ]
The way to wealth is as plain as the road to market. It depends chiefly on two words, - industry and frugality. [ Franklin ]
He who will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for others' good, is a poor frozen churl. [ Joanna Baillie ]
One cause of the insufficiency of riches (to produce happiness) is, that they very seldom make their owner rich. [ Johnson ]
As riches and favor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity. [ La Bruyere ]
Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. [ Zimmermann ]
As the ant does not wend her way to empty barns, so few friends will be found to haunt the place of departed wealth.
Seek not proud wealth; but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly. [ Bacon ]
But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties. [ Ik Marvel ]
A man who does not learn to live while he is getting a living is a poorer man after his wealth is won than he was before. [ J. G. Holland ]
O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that. [ Christian Scriver ]
Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery; enough hath never caused misery but often quickened happiness. [ Tupper ]
The possession of wealth is, as it were, prepayment, and involves an obligation of honor to the doing of correspondent work. [ George MacDonald ]
But Christian faith knows that wealth means responsibility, and that responsibility may come to mean only heavy arrears of sin. [ H. P. Liddon ]
Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little, and wants less, is richer than he that has much but wants more. [ Colton ]
Persons of fine manners make behaviour the first sign of force,--behaviour, and not performance, or talent, or, much less, wealth. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth. [ Pliny ]
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 ]
The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity. [ S. Smiles ]
Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty. [ Horace ]
Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty; as where the sun is brightest the shade is deepest. [ Lander ]
Many in hot pursuit have hasted to the goal of wealth, but have lost, as they ran, those apples of gold, the mind and the power to enjoy it. [ Tupper ]
Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a tempest. [ Pythagoras ]
Many a beggar at the crossway, or gray-haired shepherd on the plain, hath more of the end of all wealth than hundreds who multiply the means. [ Tupper ]
People who are arrogant on account of their wealth are about equal to our Laplanders, who measure a man's worth by the number of his reindeer. [ Fredrika Bremer ]
There are many people who would give all their wealth to be dispossessed of the nicknames they have, or to stamp some new imprimatur upon them. [ Acton ]
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use. [ Johnson ]
You who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your pedigree, or are proud of your wealth. [ Thackeray ]
He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above his neighbors because he hath more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine! [ Jeremy Taylor ]
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 ]
Love is life's end - an end, but never ending.... Love is life's wealth; ne'er spent, but ever spending.... Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding. [ Spenser ]
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that it may be said to possess him. [ Bacon ]
That plenty should produce either Covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches. [ William Penn ]
Worldly wealth is the devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches, recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase. [ Burton ]
One man pursues power in order to possess wealth, and another pursues wealth in order to possess power; which last is the safer way, and generally followed. [ South ]
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 ]
Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty. [ L'Estrange ]
The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock. [ Henry George ]
It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune; and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it. [ Rothschild ]
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 ]
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive nature away from the heart of man. [ Theodore Parker ]
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 ]
Nothing can supply the place of books. They are cheering or soothing companions in solitude, illness, affliction. The wealth of both continents would not compensate for the good they impart. [ Channing ]
Without enjoyment, the wealth of the miser is the same to him as if it were another's. But when it is said of a man "he hath so much," it is with difficulty he can be induced to part with it. [ Hitopadesa ]
Poverty breeds wealth; and wealth in its turn breeds poverty. The earth, to form the mould, is taken out of the ditch; and whatever may be the height of the one will be the depth of the other. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]
Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible. [ Colton ]
There is a burden of care in getting riches, fear in keeping them, temptation in using them, guilt in abusing them, sorrow in losing them, and a burden of account at last to be given up concerning them. [ Matthew Henry ]
I consider beyond all wealth, honor, or even health, is the attachment due to noble souls; because to become one with the good, generous, and true, is to be, in a manner, good, generous, and true yourself. [ Dr. Arnold ]
What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to spend tastelessly, if not viciously; not knowing that it requires as much talent to spend as to make. [ Whipple ]
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase; as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. [ Burton ]
If wealth come, beware of him, the smooth, false friend! There is treachery in his proffered hand; his tongue is eloquent to tempt; lust of many harms is lurking in his eye; he hath a hollow heart; use him cautiously. [ Tupper ]
What does competency in the long run mean? It means to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of manners, opportunities for education, the delights of leisure, and the bliss of giving. [ Whipple ]
What real good does an addition to a fortune, already sufficient, procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement. [ Goldsmith ]
Many men want wealth, - not a competence alone, but a five-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath. [ Beecher ]
A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want from the door, or at arm's length, but he places it, by heaping wealth upon wealth, at a sublime distance! [ Lamb ]
What money creates, money preserves: if thy wealth decays, thy honor dies; it is but a slippery happiness which fortunes can give, and frowns can take: and not worth the owning which a night's fire can melt, or a rough sea can drown. [ Quarles ]
A spark is a molecule of matter, yet may it kindle the world; vast is the mighty ocean, but drops have made it vast. Despise not thou small things, either for evil or for good; for a look may work thy ruin, or a word create thy wealth. [ Tupper ]
Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health, quiet, honor, and conscience, to obtain them: it is to pay so dear for them that the bargain is a loss. [ Bruyere ]
Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. lie that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth lulls his age with the milder business of saving it. [ Dr. Johnson ]
An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned, if the accession be sudden; he is very humble and very grateful. Then he begins to speak a little louder; people think him more sensible, and soon he thinks himself so. [ Cecil ]
The first wealth is health. Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve any one; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities. [ Emerson ]
Wealth is not acquired, as many persons suppose, by fortunate speculations and splendid enterprises, but by the daily practice of industry, frugality, and economy. He who relies upon these means will rarely be found destitute, and he who relies upon any other will generally become bankrupt. [ Wayland ]
There is no security in a good disposition if the support of good principles - that is to say, of religion, of Christian faith - be wanting. It may be soured by misfortune, it may be corrupted by wealth, it may be blighted by neediness, it may lose all its original brightness, if destitute of that support. [ Southey ]
Men pursue riches under the idea that their possession will set them at pace, and above the world. But the law of association often makes those who begin by loving gold as a servant finish by becoming themselves its slaves; and independence without wealth is at least as common as wealth without independence. [ Colton ]
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 ]
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 ]
You must study to give colour by apt images, and warmth by natural passion and earnestness. The music of words and the cadence of sentences is a matter which depends on the ear. Above all things monotony in the form of the sentences is to be avoided; variety means wealth and always pleases. Condensation also ought to be particularly studied, and a loose, rambling, ill-compacted form of sentence avoided. [ John Stuart Blackie, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]
Almost all men are over-anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor; and on they go as their fathers went before them, till, weary and sick at heart, they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood. [ Rogers ]
Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches will not think their condition such as that he should hazard his quiet, and much less his virtue, to obtain it, for all that great wealth generally gives above a moderate fortune is more room for the freaks of caprice, and more privilege for ignorance and vice, a quicker succession of flatteries, and a larger circle of voluptuousness. [ Johnson ]
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 ]
Among the smaller duties of life, I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due. Reputation is one of the prizes for which men contend: it is, as Mr. Burke calls it, the cheap defense and ornament of nations.
It produces more labor and more talent than twice the wealth of a country could ever rear up. It is the coin of genius, and it is the imperious duty of every man to bestow it with the most scrupulous justice and the wisest economy. [ Sydney Smith ]
When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon those whose industry or fortune has obtained it. When we find them oppressed with their own abundance, luxurious with out pleasure, idle without ease, impatient and querulous in themselves, and despised or hated by the rest of mankind, we shall soon be convinced that if the real wants of our condition are satisfied, there remains little to be sought with solicitude or desired with eagerness. [ Dr. Johnson ]