The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
Source: Sketches by Boz, The Broker's Man (1836)
Topic
The collection is clear-eyed rather than moralistic. Balzac refuses to regard a broker as human; James finds money charming to meet but horrible to follow. Ford separates the man who thinks about how much he can give from the one who thinks about how little. Ruskin notes that a little kindness is often worth more. Things are worth what they fetch at a sale, which is either pragmatic or damning depending on what you are selling. Addison's observation about primitive people who only knew how to get money by working for it is the most quietly devastating entry. These quotes are for people who have noticed that the problem with money is rarely its absence but the mental space it occupies when it is gone.
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones
If you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them.
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does
The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.