“With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves.”

“The use of riches is better than their possession.”

“The superfluities of the rich are the necessaries of the poor. They who possess superfluities, possess the goods of others.”

“We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.”

“To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.”

“[The rich] are indeed rather possessed by their money than possessors.”

“To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.”

“Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history off the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.”

“The love of possessions is a disease in them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break, but the poor may not! They have a religion in which the poor worship, but the rich will not! They even take tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule. They claim this mother of ours, the earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbor away. … If America had been twice the size it is, there still would not have been enough.”

“There are two ways to live, he decided. You can be rich, or you can deliberately refuse to be rich. You can possess money, or you can despise money; the one fatal thing is to worship money and fail to get it.”