Riches Quotes
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Great riches come to many men by chance.
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A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal enjoyments, it only shifts expenses from one to another.But when it encroaches on productive consumption it diminishes public riches.
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If you are poor, live wisely. If you have riches, live wisely. It is not your station in life but your heart that brings blessings.
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The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.
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We do not want riches, we want peace and love.
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In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably bestial ways of acquiring riches, there is no doubt that coming generations will think that our form of world trade and distribution of the world's benefits were just as inconceivable and inhuman.
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Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.
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I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
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If I might be the means of saving one soul I should prefer it to all the riches and honor in the world.
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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
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Justice waits upon the great, Interest holds the scale, and Riches turns the balance.
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Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep themselves in health; they do not worry about their position; they put their money into safe investments and are content with a low rate of interest; and they bring up their children to live simply and do useful work. But this means that they do not live like rich people at all, and might therefore just as well have ordinary incomes.
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Talents give a man a superiority far more agreeable than that which proceeds from riches, birth, or employments, which are all external. Talents constitute our very essence.
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Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind.
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I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of years.
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There are times when the one thing you haven't counts more than all the riches that may be yours.
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A kind man who makes good use of wealth is rightly said to possess a great treasure; but the miser who hoards up his riches will have no profit.
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Lack of desire is the greatest riches.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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And now that I don't want to own anything any more and am free, now I suddenly own everything, now my inner riches are immeasurable.
