Worldly wealth is the devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stories increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
O gold! I still prefer thee up to paper which makes bank credit like a bank of vapour.
it is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
Our incomes are like our shows; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but id too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
Money is netter than poverty,if only for financial reasons.
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfil. Shame and woe to us, id we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horsemen away.
If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, give for the good of others, and so know the highest pleasure wealth can give.
The desire of gold is not for gold. it is for the means of freedom and benefit.
It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and rich table and to be full of trouble.
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent.
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to end of it. Others do just the same with their time.
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
The fundamental evil of the world arose form the fact that the good lord has not created money enough.
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us.
Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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.
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be great evil.
As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in god's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.
All wealth is the product of labor.
You cannot sift out the poor from the community. the poor are indispensable to the rich.
The two most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed".
Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets and men of genius.
It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.
Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness and ugliness.
The seven deadly sins...Food,Clothing,Firing,Rent,Taxes,Respectability and Children.Nothing can lift those seven millstones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifed.
Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts, but not eternal bliss. Money can help you to get ornaments, but not beauty. Money will help you to get an electric earphone, but not natural hearing. Attain the supreme wealth, wisdom; you have everything.
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
There is an old-time toast which is golden for its beauty. "When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend".
Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.
When is a question of money, everybody is of same religion.
