I like gold because it is a stabilizer; it is an insurance policy.

Gold is so heavy it settles down upon the lowest souls.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, for that without it were else a miserable affair.

Gold opens all locks. No lock will hold against the power of gold.

Gold is the money of kings; silver is the money of gentlemen; barter is the money of peasants; but debt is the money of slaves.

Gold is a living god and rules, in scorn, all earthly things but virtue.

Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

Gold — what can it not do, and undo?

Gold has at all times been considered the best of testimonies of good faith.

The modern mind dislikes gold because it blurts out unpleasant truths.

It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.

Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie. Gold tells the truth.

Are you looking for gold, friend? Look around you; anything useful to you is pure gold, pure silver!

Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.

We must learn who is gold, and who is gold plated.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

Never trust money more than gold.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.