Not to all men, not to any man always does God give
complete abundance. To all men sometimes, to some men in long
stretches of their lives, come the abasement times,--times of
poverty, times of ignorance, times of friendlessness, times of
distrust and doubt; but God does not mean that these times
should be like great barren stretches and blanks in our lives
only to be travelled over for the sake of what lies beyond. To
him who, like Paul, knows how to be abased, they have their own
rich value. They do for him their own good work. To have our
desire set on nothing absolutely except character, to be glad
that God should lead us into any land where there is character
to win,--this is the only real explanation of life. He that has
it may be more than reconciled to living. He may do more than
triumph over his abasements. He may make close friendships with
them, so that he shall part from them with sorrow when he is
called to go to the right hand of God where there is no more
abasement, nothing but fulness forevermore.- Phillips Brooks (1835-1893), The Light of the World, and Other Sermons, New York: E. P. Dutton, 1904, p. 175

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it. - Ogden Nash, 1902 - 1971

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like. - Will Rogers, 1879 - 1935