Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market cart into a chariot of the sun.

It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.

She shows us only surfaces, but she is million-fathoms deep.

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.

There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfillment of every contract, so that honest service cannot come to loss. If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more. Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.