Amy Lowell Quotes

Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

While prosperity is in some ways related to money, it is not caused by money.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown. But all the more on this account it is necessary to provide a powerful check and counterpoise, lest the pursuit of gain be enhanced to an importance never rightfully its own, lest, in proportion as we enhance our comfort and well-being, comfort and well-being become the main objects of existence, and life's grander motives and meanings be forgotten. We have already transgressed the limit of safety

For wealth to translate into wellbeing, you need a spiritual element within you. Without that, your success will work against you.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.

But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption.

Although wealth may not bring happiness, the immediate prospect of it provides a wonderfully close imitation.

Money is the most important thing in the world, you know. Money can buy you happiness, and I don't care what anyone else thinks.

Money has never yet made anyone rich.

I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness; but it must also be allowed that it makes happiness a great deal easier to achieve.

The beauty of me is that I'm very rich.

Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs.

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two works, industry and frugality.

Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.

I know nothing that can so comfort the soul, so calm the swelling billows of grief and sorrow, so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead.

There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul.

It does the heart good to look at you.

For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.

Money's the solution, curing all the ails of the nation. But what about the hearts of man?

Good workemen are seldome rich.

Money enhances a man, yes, as beauty enhances a woman.