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.

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

Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed.

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

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

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