John Wolcot Quote

No, let the monarch's bags and others hold
The flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.

To Kien Long; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Ode iv. Compare: "Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, And almost every vice,—almighty gold", Ben Jonson, Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland.