Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
Plato

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Many of those who once were so passionately in love with Christ now run about pursuing their own interests. They're burdened down with stress and problems, chasing after riches and the things of this world.
David Wilkerson

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
Charles Caleb Colton

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
Edward Gibbon

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
Henry Fielding

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
William Cobbett

Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.
Gamaliel Bailey

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
Jonathan Swift

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Oscar Wilde

People want riches; they need fulfillment.
Robert Conklin

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
B. C. Forbes

Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.
David Wilkerson

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
Francis Bacon

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
Charles Lamb

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
Henry Ward Beecher

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.
John Chrysostom

Riches cover a multitude of woes.
Menander

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
Dick Gregory