wealth Quotes

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Transparency at the MSRB is dubious with data downloads too costly for all but the Vanguards of the world.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.