e with wealth is to
possess it.
--REYNOLDS.

Rich, from the very want of wealth,
In heaven's best treasures, peace and health.
--GRAY.

Money never made a man happy yet; there is nothing in its
nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he
wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.
--FRANKLIN.

There are treasures laid up in the heart, treasures of charity,
piety, temperance, and soberness. These treasures a man takes
with him beyond death, when he leaves this world.
--BUDDHIST SCRIPTURES.

"It is better to get wisdom than gold; for wisdom is better
than rubies, and all things that may be desired are not to be
compared to it."

"Better a cheap coffin and a plain funeral after a useful,
unselfish life, than a grand mausoleum after a loveless,
selfish life."

I ought not to allow any man, because he has broad lands, to
feel that he is rich in my presence. I ought to make him feel
that I can do without his riches, that I cannot be
bought--neither by comfort, neither by pride,--and although I
be utterly penniless, and receiving bread from him, that he is
the poor man beside me.
--EMERSON.

"I don't want such things," said Epictetus to the rich Roman orator who
was making light of his contempt for money-wealth; "and besides," said
the stoic, "you are poorer than I am, after all. You have silver
vessels, but earthenware reasons, principles, appetites. My mind to me a
kingdom is, and it furnishes me with abundant and happy occupation in
lieu of your restless idleness. All your possessions seem small to you;
mine seem great to me. Your desire is insatiate, mine is satisfied."

"Lord, how many things are in the world of which Diogenes hath no need!"
exclaimed the stoic, as he wandered among the miscellaneous articles at
a country fair.

"One would think," said Boswell, "that the proprietor of all this
(Keddlestone, the seat of Lord Scarsfield) must be happy." "Nay, sir,"
said Johnson, "all this excludes but one evil, poverty."

"What property has he left behind him?" people ask when a man dies; but
the angel who receives him asks, "What good deeds hast thou sent before
thee?"

"What is the best thing to possess?" asked an ancient philosopher of his
pupils. One answered, "Nothing is better than a good eye,"--a figurative
expression for a liberal and contented