Is That Money?

Oh! what a frightful business is this modern society; the race for wealth -- wealth.  I am ashamed to write the word.  Wealth means well-being, weal, the opposite of woe.  And is that money? or can money buy it?

-- James Anthony Froude (1818 - 1894), controversial English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine, The Nemesis of Faith (1849) Letter VII