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For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill,
To feel those tempests which fly over ditches.
For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill,
To feel those tempests which fly over ditches.
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
I have no riches but my thoughts Yet these are wealth enough for me.
I have no riches but my thoughts Yet these are wealth enough for me.
Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he
affordeth nothing else that is good.
Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he
affordeth nothing else that is good.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It
was verily prettily said that we read more
The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It
was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of
fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less read more
Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let
alone.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let
alone.
