I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worthy nor such a one as that he should grant this to me, since I know most surely that poverty and affliction become me better than delights and riches.
Economic integration is the path to riches and peace.
By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.
You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?
As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.
Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.
Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.
How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.
The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth.
In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.
Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
I believe that we have been doing this not primarily to achieve riches or even honour, but rather because we were interested in the work, enjoyed doing it and felt very strongly that it was worthwhile.
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.
Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history.
America does not fight for land, glory or riches.
To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.
We do not want riches, we want peace and love.
I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.
The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
