Fortunes cannot grow; someone has to increase them.
The only means to well-being is to increase the quantity of products. This is what business aims at.
Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable.
Inflation is an increase in the quantity of money without a corresponding increase in the demand for money, i.e., for cash holdings.
If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.