THE UNCERTAINTY OF RICHES

RICHES may leave us while we live, we must leave them when we die.

—THOMAS FULLER.

Riches, as glass, are bright but brittle.

—JOHN TRAPP.

That which was forty years in gathering, comes often to be spent in forty days revelling.

—GEORGE SWINNOCK.

Riches are long in getting with much pains, hard in keeping with much care, quick in losing with more sorrow.

—THOMAS FULLER.

While riches are, they are not.

—WILLIAM SECKER.

The world’s golden sands are quicksands.

—THOMAS WATSON.

Whom the sun-rising seeth in wealth, him the sun-setting may see in want.

—THOMAS FULLER.