Ethics Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Riches are a blessing only to those who make them a blessing to others.

— Marianette Carbito

Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.

— Samuel Smiles

Riches are a blessing or a curse to a man according as he has or has not a heart to make good use of…

— Matthew Henry

Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are good for something, but in the hands of a sordid, sneaking,…

— Matthew Henry

Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue.

— Ambrose

Riches are valuable at all times, and to all men, because they always purchase pleasures such as men are accustomed to and desire; nor…

— David Hume

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.

— Dick Gregory

Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to…

— Terence

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.

— Anonymous

Riches are oft by guilt and baseness earn'd; Or dealt by chance to shield a lucky knave, Or throw a cruel sunshine on a…

— John Armstrong

The love of money is the source of an enormous amount of good; the fact that the good is a by-product of the selfish…

— Leo Rosten

Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections.

— Pierre Charron