The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well to do. Nothing else so neatly eases one's way through life, especially in democratic countries.

Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane.

Every man who is worth thirty millions and is not wedded to them, is dangerous to the government.

In his heart everyone knows that the only people who get rich from the "get rich quick" books are those who write them.

The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place.

We may see the small value God has for riches by the people he gives them to.

There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.

Most of us aren't that interested in getting rich- we just don't want to get poor.