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.
But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Fight thou with shafts of silver and o'ercome,
When no force else can get the masterdom.