If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.
Ovid
All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renenwed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.
J.R.R. Tolkien
The man who works for the gold in the job rather than for the money in the pay envelope, is the fellow who gets on.
Joseph French Johnson
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
Euripides