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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.
Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.
Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity
and you need not give alms.
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity
and you need not give alms.
There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.
There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.
For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now
obey the alluring influence of riches.
[Lat., Omnis read more
For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now
obey the alluring influence of riches.
[Lat., Omnis enim res,
Virtus, fama, decus, divina, humanaque pulchris
Divitiis parent.]
Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends,
An incarnation of fat dividends.
Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends,
An incarnation of fat dividends.
The rich man's sons inherits cares;
The bank may break, the factory burn,
A breath may burst read more
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.
We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the
potentiality of growing rich beyond read more
We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the
potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
Who hath not heard the rich complain
Of surfeits, and corporeal pain?
He barr'd from every use read more
Who hath not heard the rich complain
Of surfeits, and corporeal pain?
He barr'd from every use of wealth,
Envies the ploughman's strength and health.