Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. Piety is vanquished and all men worship gold. Gold has banished faith, gold has made judgement to be bought and sold, gold rules the law, and, law once gone, rules chastity as well. Gold is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite. Regardless of the dollar price involved, one ounce of gold would purchase a good-quality man's suit at the conclusion of the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, and today.
Gold is pale because it has so many thieves plotting against it.
Gold were as good as twenty orators. Gold is a deep-persuading orator. Gold and love affairs are difficult to hide. Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold, She's a bird in a gilded cage. It is observed of gold, in an old epigram, that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it is to be in sorrow.