Samuel Johnson

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.