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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.
As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself,
They may talk as they please about what they read more
As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself,
They may talk as they please about what they call pelf,
They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking,
But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking
How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho!
How pleasant it is to have money!
You reach a point where you don't work for money.
You reach a point where you don't work for 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.
Make ducks and drakes with shillings.
Make ducks and drakes with shillings.
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?
Money was made, not to command our will,
But all out lawful pleasure to fulfil.
Shame and read more
Money was made, not to command our will,
But all out lawful pleasure to fulfil.
Shame and woe to use, if we our wealth obey;
The horse doth with the horseman run away.
For I can raise no money by vile means.
For I can raise no money by vile means.