Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.

There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,
Doing more murder in this loathsome world,
Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.

[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.

Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.

If money & greed were to be person's,they would have been the best of friends.