All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time.

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.

Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.

In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.

Consumption may be regarded as negative production.

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.

All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.

All labour is directed towards producing some effect.

Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.

Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.

Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.

It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.

Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time

If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value.

The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.

It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product.

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

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation.

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.

I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.

There is no wealth but life.

Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.

It would be fun to have someone in the White House who has worked in the private sector... and someone who understands that wealth creation is a good thing and they want more of it. Wealth is good.

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.

I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.

I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.