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.
O gold! I still prefer thee unto 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 shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.
If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and 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 a rich table and be full of trouble.
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the 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 from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.
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 a 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.
You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
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 lifted.
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 will have everything.
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?
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.