“The demand for money is regulated entirely by its value, and its value by its quantity.”

“If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.”

W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British playwright, novelist, short story writer

“When… we have a series of values of a quantity which continually diminish, and in such a way, that name any quantity we may, however small, all the values, after a certain value, are severally less than that quantity, then the symbol by which the values are denoted is said to diminish without limit. And if the series of values increase in succession, so that name any quantity we may, however great, all after a certain point will be greater, then the series is said to increase without limit. It is also frequently said, when a quantity diminishes without limit, that it has nothing, zero or 0, for its limit: and that when it increases without limit it has infinity or ∞ or 1⁄0 for its limit.”

Augustus De Morgan (1806–1871) British mathematician, philosopher and university teacher (1806-1871)

“Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.”

Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer

“Making money is not without its value, but nothing is baser than to make it by wrong-doing.”

Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory

“The value of money is in proportion to the quantity of the necessaries of life which it will purchase.”

Adam Smith (1723–1790) Scottish moral philosopher and political economist

“Always accustomed to wealth, she did not understand its value; we must want money to really know its worth, and money seemed to her the vilest consideration that could have influence.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

“A play is a world, with its own inhabitants and its own laws and its values.”

William Saroyan The Time of Your Life

“Capital is money: Capital is commodities. […] For the movement, in the course of which it adds surplus-value, is its own movement, its expansion, therefore, is automatic expansion. Because it is value, it has acquired the occult quality of being able to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.”

Karl Marx book Das Kapital

“The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its
value.”

Charles Dudley Warner (1829–1900) American writer