“Money the blood and life of men.
Whatever the world possesses, money rules as queen,
And more strongly than by lightning’s force smites together.”
“Money can do everything.
To his duty the warrior, ’tis money can hold,—
Than the thunderbolt greater the influence of gold.”
Very singular is the correspondence of the last two mottoes to a scene in Timon of Athens (act iv. sc. 3, lines 25, 377, vol. vii. pp. 269, 283). Timon digging in the wood finds gold, and asks,—
“What is here?
Gold! yellow, glittering, precious gold!”
and afterwards, when looking on the gold, he thus addresses it,—