Wealth releases your abilities from other uses, and lets you direct them to whatever value pleases you. Wealth is as versatile a value as your own abilities. What you cannot do yourself, you can pay others to do. Maybe you don't have the ability to play a tune, but you can hire a musician. It is no accident that the arts have flourished in prosperous eras, and languished in poverty-stricken eras.
Wealth releases ability.
Another word for ability is power. In the first place, and fundamentally, it is your own power. But it is also the power of anyone you can come to terms with. Wealth is not power over men, wealth is the power of men. The greater your wealth, the greater your scope of action, the greater the range of values to which you can aspire, and the better your life.