Money

"It is a foolish thing that without money one cannot either live as one pleases, or where and with whom one pleases. Swift somewhere says that money is liberty ; and I fear money is friendship too and society, and almost every external blessing. It is a great, though an ill-natured, comfort to see most of those who have it in plenty, without pleasure, without liberty, and without friends." Thomas Gray

"There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money." Dr Johnson. Christopher Hollis, who became a Conservative MP, said this was the most un-Christian thing ever written.

“You never find people labouring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune. -- So you hear people talking how miserable a King must be; and yet they all wish to be in his place.” Dr Johnson