He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world with a passion for flowers in his soul.
Celia Thaxter
Silver Jubilee can illustrate how very much more needs to be done
Unknown
Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
Adam Smith
Go fetch to me a pint o wine, an fill it in a silver tassie.
Robert Burns
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Mahatma Gandhi
Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right - it holds my golden time!
Oliver Wendell Holmes
All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it . . . bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Under this tree, where light and shade speckle the grass like a Thrush's breast, here in this green and quiet place I give myself to peace and rest. The peace of my contented mind, that is to me a wealth untold when the Moon has no more silver left, and the Sun's at the end of his gold.
W H Davies 1870