“Gold and silver are constituted, by the nature of things, money, and universal money, independent of all convention, and of all laws.”
§ 43
Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth (1766)
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"Taking Money Back" http://mises.org/story/2882, in The Freeman (September - October 1995) http://www.fee.org/publications/the-freeman/.

“Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate”

Veja agora o juízo curioso
Quanto no rico, assim como no pobre,
Pode o vil interesse e sede inimiga
Do dinheiro, que a tudo nos obriga.
Stanza 96, lines 5–8 (tr. Richard Fanshawe)
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto VIII

Source: (1776), Book IV, Chapter I, p. 470.

Testimony to the Pujo Committee (1912)

Source: The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1821) (Third Edition), Chapter III, On the Rent of Mines, p. 47

Vol. I, Ch. 1, Section 3, pg. 81.
(Buch I) (1867)