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.

Still amorous, and fond, and billing,
Like Philip and Mary, on a shilling.

Still amorous, and fond, and billing,
Like Philip and Mary, on a shilling.

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if read more

Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement,
psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common read more

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement,
psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common
sense and the poets have long known--that the essence of money is
in its absolute worthlessness.

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of read more

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

The sinews of affairs are cut.

The sinews of affairs are cut.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Money — the root of all evil.... Man needs roots.

Money — the root of all evil.... Man needs roots.