Oliver Goldsmith Wealth Quotations

The jests of the rich are ever successful.

Where wealth and freedom reign; contentment fails, And honor sinks where commerce long prevails

For him light labor spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more: His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth

But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain; Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose.

And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Wealth accumulates, and men decay.