Oliver Goldsmith Quotes on Wealth
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Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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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.
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His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
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A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.