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| "Simple, generous goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us. " | Louisa May Alcott | Little Men |  |
| "It was as true . . . as turnips is. It was as true . . . as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them." | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | |
| My pride fell with my fortunes; | William Shakespeare | As You Like It | |
| "Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds." | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Anne of Green Gables | |
| "I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence." | Charles Dickens | Little Dorrit | |
| "There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt." | Henrik Ibsen | A Doll's House | |
| Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? One symbol, indeed, has obscured all others--the minted round of metal. And one may safely say that, of all the ages since a coin first became the symbol of power, ours is that in which it yields to the majority of its possessors the poorest return in heart's contentment. | George Gissing | The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft | |
| "Rich folks may ride on camels, but it an't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye. That is my comfort, and I hope I knows it." | Charles Dickens | Martin Chuzzlewit | |
| "What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!" | Charles Dickens | Martin Chuzzlewit | |
| Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | |
| "I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income." | Wilkie Collins | No Name | |
| "Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will." | George Eliot | The Mill on the Floss | |
| "Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet." | Henry James | The Portrait of a Lady | |
| "I wasn't living apart from my husband then; you see, neither of us could afford to make the other a separate allowance. In spite of everything that proverbs may say, poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up." | Saki | The Chronicles of Clovis | |
| "All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other peoples. A few gifted individuals manage to do both." | Saki | The Chronicles of Clovis | |
| "No one has ever said it," observed Lady Caroline, "but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them." | Saki | The Unbearable Bassington | |
| "If he had unlimited money at his disposal, he might go into the wilds somewhere and shoot big game. I never know what the big game have done to deserve it, but they do help to deflect the destructive energies of some of our social misfits." | Saki | The Unbearable Bassington | |
| "Remuneration! O, that's the Latin word for three farthings." | William Shakespeare | Love's Labour's Lost | |
| "To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it." | G. K. Chesterton | The Wisdom of Father Brown | |
| Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table | |
