‘They’re a rotten crowd,’ I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.’
I’ve always been glad I said that. It was the only compliment I ever gave him, because I disapproved of him from beginning to end. First he nodded politely, and then his face broke into that radiant and understanding smile, as if we’d been in ecstatic cahoots on that fact all the time.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby. Chapter 8, Nick, speaking to Gatsby right before he dies, points out that wealth and class mean nothing in terms of character.