Gold is money. Everything else is credit.
Gold is money and nothing else.
I'll do business with anyone, but I'll only go sailing with gentlemen.
Before money or anything else. Money cannot buy it...Because a man I do not trust could not get money from me on all the bonds in Christendom.
The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.
A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.