“It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.”

“Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.”

“Work does not cause money; getting paid causes money.”

“Making money isn't hard in itself… What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.”

“Paper is poverty,… it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.”

“Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.”

“To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money, the breath money, no least single object anywhere that is not money, money, money everywhere and still not enough, and then no money or a little money or less money or more money, but money, always money, and if you have money or you don't have money it is the money that counts and money makes money, but what makes money make money?”

“Money is here called the a medium and not, as customary, a unit of account because, clearly, money itself is not a unit, but the good whose unit is used as the unit of account.”

“[Credit] is an evidence of banking, but it is not the money itself. Money is gold, and nothing else.”

“It isn't worth it. No money is worth this… [walks out].”