The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.

I'm a collector of designer backpacks.

If you think that someone is out to steal everything you have, you're either paranoid or a member of the middle class.

It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.

If money could buy happiness, the rich would not drown their sorrows in expensive wine.

Short is the way from need to greed.

The Woman and Her Hen A WOMAN possessed a Hen that gave her an egg every day. She often pondered how she might obtain two eggs daily instead of one, and at last, to gain her purpose, determined to give the Hen a double allowance of barley. From that day the Hen became fat and sleek, and never once laid another egg.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word luxury.

We are seekers of beauty, but avoid extravagance. We admire learning, but are unimpressed by pedantry. For us, wealth is an aim for its value when used, not as an empty boast. And the disgrace of poverty lies not in the admission of it, but more in the failure to avoid it in practice.

Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in truth, they are what cause anxiety.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.