Pastoral Resources

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.

The first wealth is health.

Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally smaller than the smallest of our London nurseries.

A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.