Resolve Not to be Poor: Poverty an Enemy of Happiness

"Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult" -- Samuel Johnson

Happiness of the Poor: Physical Labor Eases the Mind

"Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor" -- François de La Rochefoucauld

Large Income Best Recipe For Happiness: Jane Austen

"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of." -- Jane Austen

Money Buys Others Work In Place of Our Own

"The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something." -- Henry Ford

Neither Riches nor Poverty Bring Happiness

"It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed." -- Kin Hubbard

Henny Youngman: Happiness Can't Buy Money

"What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money." -- Henny Youngman

Charles Dickens: Income Above Expenditure = Happiness

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery." -- Charles Dickens in David Copperfield

Researching if Money Can Buy Happiness

"Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem." -- Bill Vaughan

Money the Husk, Not the Kernel

"Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness." -- Henrik Ibsen

Is Money Happiness in Abstract or Concrete?

"Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money." -- Arthur Schopenhauer

Money by Achievement & Creative Effort

"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt