“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”

“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”

“Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.”

“Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me; but it does not avail me that they have tried it.”

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”

“Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.”

“Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.”