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.

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns read more

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.

Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time read more

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.

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!

Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.

Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.

Money can't buy real friendship—friendship must be earned. Money can't buy a clear conscience—square dealing is the price tag. Money read more

Money can't buy real friendship—friendship must be earned. Money can't buy a clear conscience—square dealing is the price tag. Money can't buy the glow of good health—right living is the secret. Money can't buy happiness—happiness is a mental condition and one may be as happy in a cottage as in a mansion. Money can't buy sunsets, songs of wild birds and the music of the wind in the trees—these are as free as the air we breath. Money can't buy inward peace—peace is the result of a constructive philosophy in life. Money can't buy a good character—good character is achieved through decent habits of private living and wholesome dealings in our open contacts with our fellow men.

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."