You are all too rich to be happy, child. For must not each of you be the constitutions of your family marry to be still richer? People who know in what their main excellence consists are not to be blamed (are they?) for cultivating and improving what they think most valuable? Is true happiness any part of your family-view?– So far from it, that none of your family but yourself could be happy were they not rich. So let them fret on, grumble and grudge, and accumulate; and wondering what ails them that they have not happiness when they have riches, think the cause is want of more; and so go on heaping up till Death, as greedy an accumulator as themselves, gathers them into his garner! . Samuel Richardson
About This Quote

When you're rich, people expect you to spend all your money. And it's hard to get richer than that. You can't get any more rich than that. This quote is a warning to people who are not rich but think that they should be.

And it's a warning to people who are rich and think that they should be even richer. The quote mentions the failure in a person's life when they begin to accumulate more possessions and things in their life because they think that they need them in order to be happy. It also speaks of the fact that when someone dies, they still have all of their possessions, but none of their happiness.

Source: Clarissa, Or, The History Of A Young Lady

Some Similar Quotes
  1. I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. <span style="margin:15px;... - Neil Gaiman
  2. Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens - Tony Deliso
  3. Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling - Tony Deliso
  4. Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
  5. Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the... - Alexandre Dumas
More Quotes By Samuel Richardson
  1. You are all too rich to be happy, child. For must not each of you be the constitutions of your family marry to be still richer? People who know in what their main excellence consists are not to be blamed (are they?) for cultivating and...
  2. How true is the observation that unrequited love turns to deepest hate.
  3. I will be a Friend to you, and you shall take care of my Linen
  4. O how can wicked men seem so steady and untouched with such black hearts, while poor innocents stand like malefactors before them!
  5. ...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.-- To be sure she must be an atheist!
Related Topics