Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
Banking is not about money. It's about trust.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Money is gold, and nothing else.
Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?
Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.
Banking establishments are as dangerous as standing armies, and yet they are established.

Banking is a very good servant but a very bad master.

The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing.
Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it starts to rain.