Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humoured, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich—that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.
ATTRIBUTION:
Henry Fielding (1707–1754), British novelist, dramatist. Mariana, in The Miser, act 3, sc. 7.
