The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold happiness dwells in the soul.
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.
In the absence of the gold standard there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
Gold and silver like other commodities have an intrinsic value which is not arbitrary but is dependent on their scarcity the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.