“Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor ”

“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature”

“For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver”

“Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet”

“A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself”

“In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich”