Quotes about Wealth

Marner took her into his lap, trembling with an emotion mysterious to himself, at something unknown dawning on his life. Thought and feeling were so confused with him, that if he had tried to give them utterance, he could only have said that the child was come instead of the gold--that the gold had turned into the child.

For the Left, affluence is won, not earned.

To me, the money is - it's certainly a wonderful thing. But it is in direct proportion to how you're able to bless yourself and bless others with it.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury--you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

Without economy none can be rich, and with it few will be poor.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

Wants are my best riches, for I have these supplied by Christ.

O, that we could put our treasure in Christ's hand, and give Him our gold to keep, and our crown.