Wealth not used is of no value at all.

The wealth of a miser is as useless as a pebble.

I say no wealth is worth my life.

Preservation without expenditure is worthless.

Your 401(k)s and money itself will be worthless.

Money has no value unless it is spent. (undated)

There would not be much left if every useful thing that could be turned to bad ends were destroyed.

Wealth itself is an inequality which renders possible the most lurid contrast in conditions of human happiness. ... But you can not abolish wealth without punishing economy and thrift, and taking away the incentive to rise in the world. You can only abolish it by abolishing civilization, to which wealth and poverty are incidents; and poverty you can not abolish, either while civilization lasts or after it is destroyed.

Worthlessness is the default condition.

It is impossible to add the stock of money to the flow of saving.

Ill-gotten wealth is never stable.

O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears, and sighs, and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that!

Everything we possess and have here, which we consider to be wealth, is not valuable because everything can be lost overnight and that it has its value and meaning for us only when there is true God's peace.

If this was the past, then it held nothing of use.