1671
My riches consist not in the greatness of my possessions, but in the smallness of my wants.
—Cobbett.
1672
OPULENCE.
Every one who rightly considers it, may know, that eminence and opulence in the world are not real divine blessings, notwithstanding man, from the pleasure he finds in them, calls them so; for they pass away, and also seduce many, and turn them away from heaven; but that eternal life, and its happiness, are real blessings, which are from the Divine: this the Lord also teaches in Luke: 12 ch., 33-34. "Make to yourselves a treasure that faileth not in the heavens, where the thief cometh not, nor the moth corrupteth; for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
—Emanuel Swedenborg, 1688-1772.
1673
Without frugality none can become rich, and with it, few would become poor.