We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.
Source: Archer, a gentleman of broken fortunes, in The Beaux' Stratagem, act 1, sc. 1.
-- George Farquhar, ( 1678-1707), Irish dramatist; He was a comic dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for Love and a Bottle, 1698.