True Riches or Wealth without Wings (1852) - T.S. Arthur - Bog

The lessons taught in this work are such as cannot be learned too early, not dwelt on too long or too often, but those who are engaged in the active and all-absorbing duties of life. In the struggle for natural riches, the wealth that meets the eye and charms the imagination, how many forget that true riches can only be laid up in the heart; and that, without these true riches, which have no wings, gold, the god of this world, cannot bestow a single blessing!