• Sometimes I think that all mankind exist but to be bought and sold: The rich man's paramour is gold, the poor man's goddess, gold, gold, gold.

    Ridgely Torrence: Sometimes I think that all mankind   exist but to be bought and sold: The rich man's paramour is gold,   the poor man's goddess, gold, gold, gold.
    Ridgely Torrence (1900). “The House of a Hundred Lights”