There is one way whereby we may secure our riches, and make sure friends to ourselves of them,--by laying them out in charity.
Gospel riches are sent to remove our wretchedness, and mercy to remove our misery.
Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.
There's plenty of room for everyone in the world. Enough money, riches, and beauty for all to share. God has made enought for everyone, so let us all begin then by sharing it fairly.
I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.
Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.
Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.
What is Fortune, what is Fame? Futile gold and phantom name- Riches buried in a cave, Glory written on a grave.
Honor, riches, marriage-blessing Long continuance, and increasing, Hourly joys be still upon you!
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.
We do not want riches, we want peace and love.
We must not cast away riches which can benefit our neighbor. Possessions were made to be possessed; goods are called goods because they do good, and they have been provided by God for the good of men: they are at hand and serve as the material, the instruments for a good use in the hand of him who knows how to use them.
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors. But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.
If thou covetest riches, ask not but for contentment, which is an immense treasure.
Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.
Riches are a stronghold in the imagination of a rich man.
Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.
Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.