• He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

    Jeremy Taylor: He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.
    Jeremy Taylor, Thomas Smart Hughes (1831). “The Works of Jeremy Taylor”, p.113