Lectures on Russian Literature (1982)
“The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.”
“Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.”
Maxim 847
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Distinction is purchased at the expense of sympathy”
Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)
Source: (1776), Book IV, Chapter I, p. 471.
Source: (1776), Book IV, Chapter I, p. 471.
“Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.”
Caritas non potest conparari; dilectio pretium non habet.
Letter 3
Letters
“Every thing in the world is purchased by labour.”
Part II, Essay 1: Of Commerce
Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary (1741-2; 1748)
Winter, § 24, p. 287; in Conducting Effective Faculty Meetings (2008) by Sue Ellen Brandenburg, p. 12 this appears paraphrased in the form: "Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time."
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903)
Context: Time is money — says the vulgarest saw known to any age or people. Turn it round about, and you get a precious truth —money is time. I think of it on these dark, mist-blinded mornings, as I come down to find a glorious fire crackling and leaping in my study. Suppose I were so poor that I could not afford that heartsome blaze, how different the whole day would be! Have I not lost many and many a day of my life for lack of the material comfort which was necessary to put my mind in tune? Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman. Money is time, and, heaven be thanked, there needs so little of it for this sort of purchase. He who has overmuch is wont to be as badly off in regard to the true use of money, as he who has not enough. What are we doing all our lives but purchasing, or trying to purchase, time? And most of us, having grasped it with one hand, throw it away with the other.
