Adam Smith on money

Wouldn't get over-excited about getting one of these:

Power and riches appear then to be, what they are, enormous and operous machines contrived to produce a few trifling conveniences to the body, consisting of springs the most nice and delicate, which must be kept in order with the most anxious attention, and which in spite of all our care are ready every moment to burst into pieces, and crush in their ruins their unfortunate possessor.
(Adam Smith, Theory of the Moral Sentiments, IV, p.249)