Affliction comes to all not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but wise; not to make us despondent, but its darkness to refresh us, as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plow enriches the field; to
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her egg and then cackles
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.
The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.
Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law
The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.
No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.