I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.

-Aldiss, BrianWilson
Attributed last words.

Salud, Dinero, Amor†yTiempo. Health,Wealth, Love†and Time to enjoy them.

-Anonymous
Traditional Spanish wedding toast.

The order of nobility is of great use, too, not only in what it creates, but in what it prevents. It prevents the rule of wealthöthe religion of gold. This is the obvious and natural idol of the Anglo-Saxon† From this our aristocracy preserves us.

-Bagehot,Walter
  The English Constitution, ch.4,'The House of Lords'.

Therichman'swealthishisstrongcity: thedestructionof the poor is their poverty.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs10:15.

Entre nosotros el dinero ha hecho desaparecer ma¤  s preocupaciones de familia que en las viejas sociedades europeas. En e¤  stas hay lo que llaman aristocracia de dinero, que jama¤  s alcanza con su poder†a hacer olvidar enteramente la oscuridad de la cuna, al paso que en Chile†todo va cediendo su puesto a la riqueza. Among us, money has dissolved more worries than among ancient European societies. The latter have what they call the moneyed aristocracy, which, despite all its power, never gets to forget its humble origins; on the other hand, in Chile everything yields to wealth.

-Blest Gana, Alberto
  Mart|¤  n Rivas, ch.2 (translated1918).

Wealth has more and more increased, and at the same time gathered itself more and more into masses, strangely altering the old relations, and increasing the distance between the rich and the poor.

-Carlyle,Thomas
  Signs of the Times.

Where Plenty smilesöalas! she smiles for few, And those who taste not, yet behold her store, Are as the slaves that dig the golden ore, The wealth around them makes them doubly poor.

-Crabbe, George
  The Village, bk.1, l.136^9.

She's all states, and all princes I, Nothing else is. Princes do but play us; compared to this, All honour's mimic, all wealth alchemy.

-Donne,John
c.1595^1605  'The Sun Rising', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).

For God's sake, hold your tongue, and let me love, Or chide my palsy, or my gout, My five grey hairs, or ruined fortune flout, With wealth your state, your mind with arts improve, Take you a course, get you a place, Observe his honour, or his grace, Or the King's real, or his stamped face Contemplate; what you will, approve, So you will let me love.

-Donne,John
c.1595^1605  'The Canonization', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).

Why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease? And all to leave what with his toil he won To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son.

-Dryden,John
Absalom and  Achitophel, pt.1, l.165^70.

The court he practised, not the courtier's art: Large was his wealth, but larger was his heart.

-Dryden,John
  Of the loyalist  James Butler, Duke of Ormond.  Absalom and  Achitophel, pt.1, l.825^6.

My wealth is health and perfect ease; My conscience clear my chief defence; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by deceit to breed offence. Thus do I live; thus will I die. Would all did so well as I!

-Dyer, Sir Edward
  'In Praise of a Contented Mind'.

And wealth abides not, it is but for a day.

-Euripides
Phoenissae, l.558.

The labor of women inthehouse, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way [they] are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

-Gilman and Charlotte Perkins Stetson
  Women and Economics:  A Study of the Economic Relation between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution, ch.1.

and Ireally hopeno white person ever has causetowrite about me because they never understand Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy

-Giovanni,Nikki in full Yolande CorneliaGiovanni,Jr
  Black Judgement,'Nikki^Rosa'.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.

-Goldsmith, Oliver
  The Deserted Village, l.51^6.

Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable hour, The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

-Gray,Thomas
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.29^36.

A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.

-Hardy, Godfrey Harold
A Mathematician's  Apology.

Wealth cannot make a life, but Love.

-Herrick, Robert
  'A Country Life:  To His Brother, M. Tho. Herrick'.

Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily lifewithout mingling with it, casts its wealthtoright and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.

-Herzen, Alexander Ivanovich
  Notebook entry, collected in Byloe i dumy (My Past and Thoughts), vol.3 (published1861^7, translated by Constance Garnett,1924).