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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

And to hie him home, at evening's close, To sweet repast, and calm repose. . . . . From toil we wins his spirits light, From busy day the peaceful night; Rich, from the very want of wealth, In heaven's best treasures, peace and health.

Dame Nature gave him comeliness and health, And Fortune gave him wealth.

For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill, To feel those tempests which fly over ditches.

It cannot be repeated too often that the safety of great wealth with us lies in obedience to the new version of the Old World axiom--Richesse oblige.

Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.

These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!

Know from the bounteous heavens all riches flow; And what man gives, the gods by man bestow.

Riches either serve or govern the possessor.

For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.

Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.

And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.

We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.

Private credit is wealth; public honor is security; the feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight; strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.

Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately.

It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous.

The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn.

Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good.