Will knit and break religions; bless the accursed
Make the hoar leprosy adored; place thieves
And give them title, knee and approbation
With senators on the bench.”
“Money is more eloquent than all the poets, preachers or philosophers, and has the only tongue that, strange to no one, needs no dictionary to explain it to the simplest unlearned soul.”
Columbus in a letter to Ferdinand and Isabella says, “Gold is an excellent thing. With gold one forms treasures. With gold one does whatever one wishes in this world. Even souls can be got to Paradise by it.”
“’Tis gold that buys admittance, oft it doth,
and ’tis gold
Which makes the true man kill’d, and saves the thief
Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man,