Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.

Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.

Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.

It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it.