Acquisition Quote by Desiderius Erasmus

We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without…

— Samuel Johnson

We must not cast away riches which can benefit our neighbor. Possessions were made to be possessed; goods are called goods because they do…

— Clement of Alexandria

I have the grace of providence to be poor.

— Antonio de Oliveira Salazar

Providence is the perpetuity and continuance of creation.

— Richard Sibbes

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

You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen…

— J. Reuben Clark

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing makes us better understand what trifling things Providence thinks He bestows on men in granting them wealth, money, dignities, and other advantages, than…

— Jean de la Bruyere

You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen…

— J. Reuben Clark

Riches either serve or govern the possessor.

— Horace

Without any cant, does not Providence provide wonderfully for us?

— Isabel Burton

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

— Marcus Tullius Cicero