True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and to distribute the good things of life with rising standards of living.

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

Riches are intended for the comfort of life, and not life for the purpose of hoarding riches.

The rich man is everywhere expected and at home.

Many a man has found the acquisition of wealth only a change, not an end of miseries.

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

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.

Wealth breeds satiety, satiety outrage.

Just as war is waged with the blood of others, fortunes are made with other people's money.