“Money must not be estimated by its numerical quantity: if the metal, that is merely the sign of wealth, was wealth itself, that is, if the happiness or the benefits that result from wealth were proportional to the quantity of money, men would have reason to estimate it numerically and by its quantity, but it is barely necessary that the benefits that one derives from money are in just proportions with its quantity; a rich man of one hundred thousand ecus income is not ten times happier than the man of only ten thousand ecus; there is more than that what money is, as soon as one passes certain limits it has almost no real value, and cannot increase the well-being of its possessor; a man that discovered a mountain of gold would not be richer than the one that found only one cubic fathom.”