He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.

Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.

A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.

As water collected in a tank gets pure by filtration, so accumulated wealth is preserved by being employed in charity.

Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole.

Save your wealth against future calamity. Do not say, "what fear has a rich man of calamity?" Wealth sometimes vanishes away and large accumulations perish.