"Do you seek to acquire worldly riches at the peril of your immortal soul?"

"While hoarding, as a distinct mode of acquiring riches, vanishes with the progress of civil society, the formation of reserves of the means of payment grows with that progress."

The monks not only spread the idea of Buddhism but also the idea of Buddhism helping Japan acquire riches of its own.

Over the centuries, the monasteries acquired riches and secular dependents, gradually increasing their wealth and power.

But it was just a simple clay jug and the man put it aside and forged on with his life, spending his time acquiring riches.

Others tells us that, after having acquired great riches in the West Indies, he died there in poverty.

My Lord, have you not acquired enough riches and luxury?

They will acquire vast riches And hoard treasures underground.

But no premiere ballerina ever works harder, nor more narrowly, than a man who acquires riches.

At the head of his bands, he acquired considerable riches from collecting ransoms and spoils.