Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times

Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes¹ you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting² remorse³.

Chilo

Maybe it would be better to acknowledge, like the Greeks, that a lot of behavior we call addiction⁴ is really a love of pleasure that carries the force of habit. We become addicted⁵ mostly because of the central issue in all self-control problems, which is the disproportionate value we place on short-term rewards.

Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011

Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament⁶ of quite a different kind.

Elizabeth Aston, Mr. Darcy's Daughters, 2003

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin⁷ Hubbard (1868 - 1930)

Though I am grateful for the blessings⁸ of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude⁹ with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Rex Stout¹⁰ (1886 - 1975)

It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)

Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous¹¹.

Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682)

Wisdom outweighs¹² any wealth.

Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Antigone