There is no wealth but life.

-Ruskin,John
  Unto this Last, essay 4.

The cold metal of economic theory is in Marx's pages immersed in such a wealth of steaming phrases as to acquire a temperature not naturally its own.

-Schumpeter,Joseph Alois
  Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, p.21.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Morell to Lexy. Candida, act1.

Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  Declaration of Rights, article 27.

Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  'StanzasWritten in Dejection, near Naples'.

Come sleep,O sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, The indifferent judge between the high and low.

-Shute, Nevil originally Nevil Shute Norway
Astrophel and Stella, sonnet 39.

We cannot not sayhow muchwealththereisina country till we know how it is shared among its inhabitants.

-Sidgwick, Henry
  Principles of Political Economy.

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me. All I ask, the heaven above, And the road below me.

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
  Songs ofTravel (published1896), no.1,'TheVagabond', stanza 4.

There is no road to wealth so easyand respectable as that of matrimony.

-Trollope, Anthony
  DoctorThorne, ch.16.

You cannot be pro-jobs and anti-government at the same time.You cannot love employees and despise employers.You cannot redistribute wealth that you never created. No goose, no golden egg.

-Tsongas, Paul Efthemios
  Quoted in the Los AngelesTimes,19 Feb.

Ja"   leider desn mac nicht ges|"n, Das guot und wertlich e"  re Und gotes hulde me"  re Zesamene in ein herze komen. It is sadly impossible For wealth and a good name, along with God's favour, to be united in one heart.

-Walther Von derVogelweide
c.1195  'Ich sass u"   f eime steine', l.16^19.

Beneath her torn hat glowed the wealth Of simple beautyand rustic health.

-Whittier,John Greenleaf
  'Maud Muller', l.3^4.

  Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness.We are selfish men; Oh! raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.

-Wordsworth,William
  'Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour', complete poem (published1807).

The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company: I gazedöand gazedöbut little thought What wealth the show to me had brought.

-Wordsworth,William
  'I wandered lonely as a cloud', stanza 3 (published1807).