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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Abundance

In abundance prepare for scarcity.

Mencius.

Abundance changes the value of things.

Terence.

Abundance without discretion is plain penury.

Matteo Gribaldi.

Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

J. Petit-Senn.

For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Matthew xii. 34.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Erasmus.

Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.

Selden.

If I have enough for myself and family, I am steward only for myself; if I have more, I am but a steward of that abundance for others.

George Herbert.