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"Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you." »Oscar Wilde
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"Real riches are the riches possessed inside." »B. C. Forbes
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"riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give." »Charles Caleb Colton
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"You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return." »Robert Collier
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"Through His redemptive work we are 'justified from all things' (Acts 1338,39) and now rejoice in 'the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace' (Eph. 17), a position in Christ at God's right hand (Eph. 24-6), 'all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ' (Eph. 13) and 'the hope of the glory of God' (Rom. 52), to be fully realized when we are 'caught up together...to meet the Lord in the air' (1 Thess. 417). Then will be fulfilled the desire of God's loving heart 'That in the ages to come He might shew the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus' (Eph. 27)." »Cornelius Stam
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"A good name is better than riches." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me." »Sara Teasdale
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"Give me neither poverty nor riches." »Proverbs 30.8 Bible
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"Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want." »Jonathan Swift
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"riches cover a multitude of woes." »Menander
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"To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches." »Cicero
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"Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile." »Sir Wilfred Grenfell
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"riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them." »Napoleon Bonaparte
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"Health is the greatest gift, contentedness the best riches." »The Dhammapada
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"My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants." »J. Brotherton
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"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"There are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty comparable to the want of patience." »R Chamberlain
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"riches disclose in a man?s character the bad qualities formerly concealed in his poverty." »Arabic Proverb
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"The world pins no medals on you because of what you know, but it may crown you with glory and riches for what you do." »Unknown
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"If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches." »Kahlil Gibran
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"By the fall of water-drops the pot is filled: such is the increase of riches, of knowledge, and of virtue." »The Hitopadesa
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"riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits." »Heloise
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"riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them." »Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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"Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge, virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled." »The Hitopadesa
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"The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession." »Sallust, The War with Catiline
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"If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all." »Francois Fenelon
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"The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession." »Sallust
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"Let the stronger man give to the man whose need is greater let him gaze upon the lengthening path of life. For riches roll like the wheels of a chariot, turning from one to another." »Rig Veda
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"Amongst all possessions knowledge appears pre-eminent. The wise call it supreme riches, because it can never be lost, has no price, and can at no time be destroyed." »The Hitopadesa
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"For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief." »Sallust
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