Riches attract the attention, consideration, and congratulations of mankind.

Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further.

Wealth unused might as well not exist.

Be not penny-wise: riches have wings, and sometimes they fly away of themselves; sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

All wealth is relative; and so is its absence.

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

Riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

Wealth maketh many friends.

If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.

In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.