The gratification of wealth is not found in possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Better to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
The working people cannot purchase with their wages the wealth which they have produced.
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
The greatest wealth is to be content with little.
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.