5 Oliver Goldsmith Quotes on Wealth

Oliver Goldsmith quotes on wealth

18. Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

26. Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

51. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.

52. His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.

56. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.