Money often costs too much.
Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
For the use of words, and thus of a book, is to point beyond themselves to a world of life and experience that is not mere words or even ideas. Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life.
Esteem money neither more nor less than it deserves, it is a good servant and a bad master.
Silver is worth less than gold, gold less than virtue.
Behind the money lies a whole world of passions; it lies in human psychology.
The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
