“Anything that just costs money is cheap.”

“The great artists of finance like Morgan and Rockefeller weren't deflected. They wanted and got money, just simple money. What they did with it afterward is another matter. I've always felt they got scared of the ghost they raised and tried to buy it off.”

“Money is not nice. Money got no friends but more money.”

“She gathered some brown seaweed and made a flat damp poultice of it, and this she applied to the baby's swollen shoulder, which was as good a remedy as any and probably better than the doctor could have done. But the remedy lacked his authority because it was simple and didn't cost anything.”

“A reputation for money is almost as negotiable as money itself.”

“And all their love was thinned with money.”

“Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.”