What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold.
Wealth is the Conjurer's Devil, Whom, when he thinks he hath, the Devil hath him.
Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied.
The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts.
Gaming is a vice the more dangerous as it is deceitful; and, contrary to every other species of luxury, flatters its votaries with the hopes of increasing their wealth; so that avarice itself is so far from securing us against its temptations that it often betrays the more thoughtless and giddy part of mankind into them.
I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened a very long time ago, and Holy Writ, though no doubt divinely inspired, is a trifle careless about details. God is not a historian).
A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.
Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others.
