The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out how poor men live; and second, for poor men to know how rich men work.

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. [Proverbs 28:20]

Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.

Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.

He who multiplies riches, multiplies cares.

Think and grow rich.

He who knows he has enough is rich.

A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn't enough merely to make money. He feels obliged to hold views, to espouse causes and elect Presidents, to explain to a trembling world how and why the world went wrong. The spectacle is nearly always comic.

The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them.

No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them.

For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself, there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!

What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.

With the great part of rich people, the chief employment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

Riches are a stronghold in the imagination of a rich man.

Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.

The rich aren't like us; they pay less taxes.