Wealth QuotesThe best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires. The best wealth is the one by which the honour of man is protected. The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday. All true wealth is biological. True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive use of the wealthy. These land and water resources belong to the people, and people of all income levels should have easy access to them. Whoever is not diligent in his work, will suffer; who- ever has no share of God in his wealth and in his life then there is no place for him in His Realm. Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural. The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else. Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings! The wealth ov a person should be estimated, not bi the amount he haz, but bi the use he makes ov it. Referring to a wealthy miser he said, "He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him." Ah woe is me, through all my days
Wisdom and wealth I both have got,
And fame and name and great mens praise;
But Love, ah! Love I have it not. Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. To help a man suffering from dropsy, it's far better to cure his thirst than to offer him a barrel of wine. Apply this principle to the wealthy. In general, Russia suffers from a frightening poverty in the sphere of facts and a frightening wealth of all types of arguments. |


