Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it read more

Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

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.

Prospering just doesn't have to do with money.

Prospering just doesn't have to do with money.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should read more

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

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.

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 was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, read more

Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.