Aunt Betsey made a bad bargain when she exchanged her girlish aspirations for a man whose soul was in his pocket. – Louisa May Alcott, “Christie,” Work: A Story of Experience, 1873

We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out. – Julian Huxley, Essays of a Biologist, 1923

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money. – Marcus Tullius Cicero