"Money is the representative of a certain..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.”

“Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.”

“Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall one day learn to supercede politics by education... We must begin higher up, namely in Education.”

“Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.”

“Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!”

“When money is once parted with, it can never return.”

“My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in a dung-hill, so old age and discretion are to be respected even in the vile persons of our subjects. Desist therefore, and tell us what you desire and propose.”

“Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.”

“Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.”