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- Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Gold is worse poison to a man's soul, doing more murders in this loathsome world, than any mortal drug.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
- The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.
- Alfred A. Montapert
- He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Wealth is not of necessity a curse, nor poverty a blessing. Wholesome and easy abundance is better than either extreme; better for our manhood that we have enough for daily comfort; enough for culture, for hospitality, for charity. More than this may or may not be a blessing. Certainly it can be a blessing only by being accepted as a trust.
- R. D. Hitchcock
- Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- We have among us a class of mammon worshippers, whose one test of conservatism or radicalism is the attitude one takes with respect to accumulated wealth. Whatever tends to preserve the wealth of the wealthy is called conservatism, and whatever favors anything else, no matter what is called socialism.
- Richard T. Ely
- If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.
- Robert Collier
- In seeking wisdom thou are wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it thou are a fool.
- Rabbi Ben-Azai
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