Money Returns to its Intrinsic Value - Zero: Voltaire

“Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.” -- Voltaire

Men with Heads to Get Money & Hearts to Spend Money

"We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it." -- George Farquhar

Value of Money is Measured by Obtaining Loans

"If you would know the value of money try to borrow some" -- Benjamin Franklin

Search For Gold Brought Greater Value to Alchemists

"The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value." -- Arthur Schopenhauer

A Good Deed Unrewarded Often Goes Undone

"Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward." -- Ovid

Money, Capital & Commodities Add Profit to Value

"Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs." -- Karl Marx

Value of Things Not Measured By Their Cost

"A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it." -- John Ruskin

Value of Money is Small When Measured by Who Has It

"We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to." -- Alexander Pope