Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Wealth
-
Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.
→ -
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
→ -
Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. Just as long as there is the enthusiasm of the chase they enjoy it; but when they begin to look around, and think of settling down, they find that that part by which joy enters is dead in them. They have spent their lives in heaping up colossal piles of treasure, which stand, at the end, like the pyramids in the desert sands, holding only the dust of kings.
→ -
Many men want wealth,--not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath.
→ -
Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.
→ -
Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
→ -
Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain godliness therewith. It is hard to be a saint standing in a golden niche.
→ -
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
→ -
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.
→ -
Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.
→ -
Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.
→ -
As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.
→ -
When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
→ -
No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
→
Related Authors
-
Julia Ward Howe Activist -
Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist -
Lyman Abbott Author -
James Buchanan 15th U.S. President -
Lucy Stone Activist -
Stephen A. Douglas Former U.S. Representative -
-
Theodore Tilton Poet -
Edward Everett Hale Author -
Wendell Phillips Lawyer -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Activist -
Victoria Woodhull Political leader -
-
William Lloyd Garrison Journalist -
Lydia M. Child Activist -
Harriet Beecher Stowe Author -
Debby Applegate Historian -
Charles Sumner Former United States Senator -
Robert H. Schuller Televangelist -
John Brown Abolitionist