Money confounds subordination

Keeping accounts, Sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today, because you have written down what it cost yesterday.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens in life: and among mortals, those who are most unhappy are the ones who have more than they need.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.