Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
~ Francis Bacon

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

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.
~ Jean Anouilh

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.
~ Edward Atkinson

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you always talk of their envy, without understanding that what they ask of you is not so much your worldly goods, as something very hard to define, which they themselves can put no name to; yet at times it consoles their loneliness; a dream of splendor, of magnificence, a tawdry dream, a poor man's dream --and yet God blesses it!
~ Georges Bernanos

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

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Of all the riches that we hug, of all the pleasures we enjoy, we can carry no more out of this world than out of a dream.
~ John S. Bonnell

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

This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community --the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves.
~ Andrew Carnegie

Among the very rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men.
~ Charles Caleb Colton

In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
~ Diogenes of Sinope

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.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
~ B. C. Forbes

He who multiplies riches, multiplies cares.
~ Benjamin Franklin

If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with to the other world?
~ Benjamin Franklin