"The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation,..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.”

“Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart.”

“Demagogue--a vessel containing beer and other liquids.”

“Perfect alchemists I keep who can transmute substances without end, and thus the corner of my garden is an inexhaustible treasure-chest. Here you can dig, not gold, but the value which gold merely represents; and there is no Signor Blitz about it.”

“Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.”

“Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.”

“Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.”

“It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our lifetime, or be possessed when we are dead, by whom we know not, or perhaps by whom we would not.”

“If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.”