Richness

Do not waste your time on social questions. What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

There is no wealth but life

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble

A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket

It is the mind that makes the body rich

No man can become rich without himself enriching others

The man who dies rich dies disgraced

To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably

There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only ''instinct'' I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as ''the sin of avarice"

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time

All wealth is the product of labor.