Referring to a wealthy miser he said, "He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him."

No one described him better than he did when someone accused him of being rich.
“No, not rich,” he said. “I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.

The man who is not permitted to own is owned.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

It was not laziness if he was a rich man. Only the poor were lazy. Just as only the poor were ignorant. A rich man who didn’t know anything was spoiled or independent.

"Is he then an unhappy man?" Poirot said: "So unhappy that he has forgotten what happiness means. So unhappy that he does not know he is unhappy." The nun said softly: "Ah, a rich man…"

A greedy man is an unlucky man.

A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned

Funny thing how it is. If a man owns a little property, that property is him, it's part of him, and it's like him. If he owns property only so he can walk on it and handle it and be sad when it isn't doing well, and feel fine when the rain falls on it, that property is him, and some way he's bigger because he owns it. Even if he isn't successful he's big with his property. That is so.'

'But let a man get property he doesn't see, or can't take time to get his fingers in, or can't be there to walk on it - why, then the property is the man. He can't do what he wants, he can't think what he wants. The property is the man, stronger than he is. And he is small, not big. Only his possessions are big - and he's the servant of his property. That is so, too.

"Was it a millionaire who said, "Imagine no possessions"?"

The wealthy man's sin isn't his wealth but the importance he attaches to it.

He said it as if ‘very rich’ was a nationality; as perhaps it is.

He is not rich, that enjoyeth not his own goods.