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I have known millionaires starving for lack of the nutriment which alone can sustain all that is human in man, and I know workmen...who revel in luxuries beyond the power of those millionaires to reachIt is the mind that makes the body rich. There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
Address, at the presentation of the Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1895)
Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce it.
'Wealth,' North American Review (1889)
Rich men should be thankful for one inestimable boon. They have it in their power during their lives to busy themselves in organizing benefactions from which the masses of their fellows will derive lasting advantage, and thus dignify their own lives.
'Wealth,' North American Review (1889)
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year
Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone
The rich man . . . is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them
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