It is the principle of the common law, that an officer ought not to take money for doing his duty.
Money Quotes
Karl Marx and Robert Kiyosaki are tied for the most entries here, which is about as wide a spread of opinion as one page can hold. The sourced quotes lean towards the sceptics. Thoreau’s journal for 1838 says the richest man is the one whose pleasures are the cheapest. Chesterton, in his novel The Flying Inn (1914), is less polite about the rich.
“The lack of money is the root of all evil” is credited to Mark Twain, and it does appear in a posthumous piece of his from 1905. It had already been in print, though. Wikiquote finds it in 1872, set in quotation marks as if readers would know it, and a similar remark about gold in a magazine from 1859.
We see then, commodities are in love with money, but "the course of true love never did run smooth".
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.
Whoever said money can't buy happiness wasn't spending it helping people who needed it.
The ancients therefore denounced money as subversive of the economic and moral order of things.
Only money we must have, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
On that final stage, profit will automatically disappear and there will be no need for money.
In fact, when it comes to protecting their money, our money is no object.