It is easier for a needle to go through a camel's eye than for a rich woman to sprain her ancle & keep it out of the papers.
- Letter to Carolyn Wells, April 15, 1906
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...being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny.
- Mark Twain, a Biography

If all men were rich, all men would be poor.
- Mark Twain's Notebook

It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich -- these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.
- Autobiography of Mark Twain, (University of California Press, 2010)