A great fortune is a great slavery.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow who used to say, "Take
care of the pence, for the read more

I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow who used to say, "Take
care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves."

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as read more

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money
answereth all things.

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money
answereth all things.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.

Money is a good servant but a bad master.
[Fr., L'argent est un bon serviteur, mais un mechant maitre."

Money is a good servant but a bad master.
[Fr., L'argent est un bon serviteur, mais un mechant maitre."

I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.

I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.

How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests
Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins
(Not of old victors, read more

How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests
Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins
(Not of old victors, all whose heads and crests
Weigh not the thin ore where their visage shines,
But) of find unclipt gold, where dully rests
Some likeness, which the glittering cirque confines,
Of modern, reigning, sterling, stupid stamp;--
Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.