The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
The market is the creator of social wealth and the wellspring of self-sustaining economic development.
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
The real wealth of a good gardener is not his salary but the marvellous flowers he is raising in the garden!
We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth.
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
It is well to look around at whom, and not just what, surrounds us. Population structure will change everything. Our health, wealth, and peace depend on it.
People say to me that I can't be nervous because I've had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before.
Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth. It is a matter of desire, diligence and determination to see one's family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters.
Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.
The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.
The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years.
Rather than improving the wealth of their own nation, the Mexican government encourages its poor to come to the U.S. and send money home.
If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.
Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.
Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged from 16th-century Calvinism, a religion whose members believed that God showed favor by bestowing wealth and other forms of success on what they called '...
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
Where the quest for knowledge is relatively, and now almost absolutely, unrestrained, the public benefit will be great, especially where the certainty of the law ensures that knowledge is rewarded. This is exactly the combination that is the foundati...
Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
Market forces and capitalism by themselves aren't sufficient to ensure the common good and to limit the concentration of wealth at levels that are compatible with democratic ideals.
If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.
