Gold

Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.

Bernard M. Baruch (1870-1965) American financier, and political consultant.

The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) British journalist, novelist and poet.

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

Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) British clergyman and author.

Gold will be slave or master.

Horace (BC 65-8) Latin lyric poet.

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

Antoine Rivarol (1753-1801) French writer and epigrammatist.