The way to resumption is to resume.
I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow who used to say, "Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves."
Chesterfield—Letters. Nov. 6, 1747; also Feb. 5, 1750. Quoting Lowndes.
As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself,
They may talk as they please about what they call pelf,
They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking,
But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking
How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho!
How pleasant it is to have money!
Money was made, not to command our will,
But all our lawful pleasures to fulfil.
Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey;
The horse doth with the horseman run away.
Abraham Cowley—Imitations. Tenth Epistle of Horace. Bk. I. L. 75.
Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made,
To turn a penny in the way of trade.
| author = Cowper
| work = Table Talk. L. 421.
e
The sinews of affairs are cut.
Attributed to Demosthenes by jEschines.
Adv. Ctesiphon.
| seealso = (See also Bion; also Cicero under War)
| topic = Money
| page = 522
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>The sweet simplicity of the three per cents.
Benj. Disraeli. In the House of Commons,
Feb. 19, 1850. Endymion. Ch. XCVI.
| seealso = (See also Eldon)
| topic = Money
| page = 522
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>"The American nation in the Sixth Ward is a
fine People," he says. "They love th' eagle," he
says. "On the back iv a dollar."
F. P. Dunne—Mr. Dooley in Peace and War.
Oratory on Polities.
Wine maketh merry: but money answereth
all things.
Ecclesiastes. X. 19.
The elegant simplicity of the three per cents.
Lord Eldon. See Campbell—Lives of the
Lord Chancellor's. Vol. X. Ch. CCXII.
Almighty gold.
Farquhar—Recruiting Officer. III. 2.
i 2
If you would know the value of money, go and
try to borrow some.
Franklin—Poor Richard's Almanac. Same
idea in Herbert-^/oc«Jo Prudentum.
This bank-note world.
Fitz-Greene Hallbck—Alnwick Castle.
M Get to live;
Then live, and use it; else, it is not true
That thou hast gotten. Surely use alone
Makes money not a contemptible stone. _
| author = Herbert
| work = The Temple. The Church Porch.
St. 26.
Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome
When no force else can get the masterdome.
| author = Herrick
| work = Money Gets the Mastery.
How widely its agencies vary,—
To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless,—
As even its minted coins express,
Now stamp'd with the image of good Queen Bess,
And now of a Bloody Mary.
Hood—Miss Kilmansegg. Her Moral.
Quserenda pecunia primum est; virtus post
nummos.
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue
after wealth.
Horace—Epistles. I. 1. 53.
is Rem facias rem,
Recte si possis, si non, quocumque modo rem.
Money, make money; by honest means if
you can; if not, by any means make money.
Horace—Epistles. I. 1. 65.
| seealso = (See also {{sc|Jonson)
Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?
Of what use is a fortune to me, if I can not
use it?
Horace—Epistles. I. 5. 12.
Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat.
All powerful money gives birth and beauty.
Horace—Epistles. I. 6. 37.
Licet superbus ambules pecuniae,
Fortuna non mutat genus.
Though you strut proud of your money, yet
fortune has not changed your birth.
Horace—Epodi. IV. 5.
Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo
Ipse domi, simul ac nummos contemplor in area.
The people hiss me, but I applaud myself
at home, when I contemplate the money in
my chest.
Horace—Satires. I. 1. 66.
The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to
have no genuine devotees in these peculiar vilWashington Irving—Creole Village. In
Wolferfs Roost. Appeared in Knickerbocker
Mag. Nov., 1836.
| seealso = (See also Wolcot)
| topic = Money
| page = 522
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold,
And almost every vice, almighty gold.
Ben Jonson—Epistle to EUzabeth, Countess
of Rutland.
{{Hoyt quote
| num = | text = <poem>Get money; still get money, boy;
No matter by what means. Ben Jonson—Every Man in His Humour. Act II. Sc. 3. •
| seealso = (See also {{sc|Horace, Pope)
