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

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.

Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.

The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money.

These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money - capitals appears as so many obstacles to circulation, because they immobilise the money and deprive it of its capacity to circulate for a certain time.

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