Debt is the worst poverty.

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.

Happiness is a quality of the soul, not a function of one's material circumstances.

The man who earns a million, but destroys his health in the process is not really a success.

There are three great friends: an old wife, and old dog, and ready money.

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not everyone's greed.

It is a socialist idea making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.

Anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, now that's the real test.

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is. waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.

If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

Oh! poverty is a weary thing, 'tis full of grief and pain; it keepeth down the soul of man, as with an iron chain.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad.

Beware of over concern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.