Brother Lawrence Quotes

If thou covetest riches, ask not but for contentment, which is an immense treasure.

Money is the best lotion in the world.

Well, if someone has got all the money in the world, they'd still want love.

Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.

Content and Riches seldom meet together, Riches take thou, contentment I had rather.

Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure.

Being rich and thin isn't everything.

Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest.

Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.

I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.

Wealth and Content are not always Bed-fellows.

A kind man who makes good use of wealth is rightly said to possess a great treasure; but the miser who hoards up his riches will have no profit.

Money has yet to make anyone rich.

If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

If love be treasure, we'll be wondrous rich.

Find a pile of gold and sit on it.

To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.

What good is money if it can't buy happiness?

It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.

Believe me, my sole purpose is to make as much money as possible; for after good health it is the best thing to have.

Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. Just as long as there is the enthusiasm of the chase they enjoy it; but when they begin to look around, and think of settling down, they find that that part by which joy enters is dead in them. They have spent their lives in heaping up colossal piles of treasure, which stand, at the end, like the pyramids in the desert sands, holding only the dust of kings.

Happiness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you've got.

Anyone who tells you money can't buy happiness never had any.