Asthe Spanishproverbsays,'He, whowould bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark,17  Apr. Quoted in  James Boswell  The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.3.

Sir, the insolence of wealth will creep out.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark,18  Apr. Quoted in  James Boswell  The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.3.

  Yet I glory More in the cunning purchase of my wealth Than in the glad possession.

-Jonson, Ben
  Volpone, act1, sc.1.

I look forward to†a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint; its wealth with our wisdom; its power with our purpose.

-Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)
  Last major public speech,  Amherst College, 26 Oct.

If Enterprise is afoot,Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening toThrift; and if Enterprise is asleep,Wealth decays, whateverThrift may be doing.

-Keynes (of Tilton),John Maynard, 1st Baron
  A  Treatise on Money.

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitraryand inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

-Keynes (of Tilton),John Maynard, 1st Baron
  The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.

There is nothing like wealth for dulling desire.

-McGuigan, Barry
  In The Independent, 29 Dec.

Thus methinks should men of judgement frame Their means of traffic from the vulgar trade, And as their wealth increaseth, so enclose Infinite riches in a little room.

-Marlowe, Christopher
c.1589  The Jew of Malta (published1633), act1, sc.1.

The worker becomes poorer the more wealth he produces and the more his production increases in powerand extent.The worker becomes anevercheaper commodity the more good he creates. The devaluation of the human world increases in direct relation with the increase in value of the world of things. Labour does not only create goods; it also produces itself and the worker as a commodity, and indeed in the same proportion as it produces goods.

-Marx, Karl Heinrich
  Collected in T B Bottomore (trans and ed) Early Writings (1964), p.121.

Unlike the Laws of Production, those of Distribution are partly of human institution, since the manner in which wealth is distributed in any given society, depends on the statutes or usages therein obtaining.

-Mill,John Stuart
  Principles of Political Economy, with Some Applications to Social Philosophy.

I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on. I know not why it should be a matter of congratulation that persons who are already richer than any one needs to be, should have doubled their means of consuming things which give little or no pleasure except as representative of wealth.

-Mill,John Stuart
  Principles of Political Economy, with Some Applications to Social Philosophy.

Les re¤  publiques finissent par le luxe; les monarchies, par la pauvrete¤  . Republics end by wealth; monarchies end by poverty.

-Bre'  de et de
  De l'esprit des lois, vol.7, ch.4.

Il en est de la luxure comme de l'avarice: elle augmente sa soif par l'acquisition des tre¤  sors. The same rule applies for lust, as for avarice: it increases its thirst by the acquisition of wealth.

-Bre'  de et de
  De l'esprit des lois, vol.16, ch.6.

Here, of all her cities, throbbed the true lifeöthe true power and spirit of America; gigantic, crude with the crudityof youth, disdaining rivalry; saneand healthyand vigorous; brutal in its ambition, arrogant in the new- found knowledge of its giant strength, prodigal of its wealth, infinite in its desires.

-Norris, Frank Benjamin Franklin
  Of Chicago. The Pit, ch.2.

Labour is the Father and active principle of Wealth, as lands are the Mother.

-Petty, Sir William
  Treatise ofTaxes.

For I spend all my time going about trying to persuade you, young and old, to make your first and chief concern not for your bodies nor for your possessions, but for the highest welfare of your souls, proclaiming as Igo,Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.

-Plato
Apology, 30b (translated by H Tredennick).

Wealth, in a commercial age, is made up largely of promises.

-Pound, (Nathan) Roscoe
  An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law, ch.6.

In every case, agricultural as well as manufacturing profits are lowered bya rise in the price of raw produce, if it be accompanied bya rise of wages_ The natural tendency of profits istofall; for inthe progress of society and wealth, the additional quantity of food required is obtained by the sacrifice of more and more labour.

-Ricardo, David
  Principles of Political Economy andTaxation.

I was born into wealth and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there like food or air.

-Rockefeller, David
  In Merchants and Masterpieces,WETA TV broadcast, 31 Dec.

We have the menöthe skillöthe wealthöand above all, the will† We must be the great arsenal of democracy.

-Roosevelt, Franklin D(elano)
  'Fireside chat'radio broadcast, 29 Dec.