“Gold to airy thinness beat.”
Source: Clockwork Prince
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“Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 367.

“Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.”
Source: NOS4A2

Part I, section xxii, stanza 11
Maud; A Monodrama (1855)
Source: Water Street (2006), Chapters 1-10, p. 13

"Ethan Brand" (1850)

“Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold!
Bright and yellow, hard and cold.”
Her Moral; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century

“This is truly the age of gold,
since only gold wins and gold reigns.”
Veramente il secol d'oro è questo,
Poiché sol vince l'oro, e regna l'oro.
Act II, scene i.
Aminta (1573)

Needle in the Hay.
Lyrics, Elliott Smith (1995)