Stripped of ideals, mere money making is among the coarsest of occupations.
Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things. He gave it a chance. He even provided a first instalment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories.
GEORGES BERNANOS, The Diary of a Country Priest
Money spent withdraws its charm.
The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.
Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in a mass, it does no good; but, if it is only spread out evenly on the land, everything will grow.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this--they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.
WILLIAM HAZLITT, Characteristics
We insist that "money is the root of all evil," and behave as if it were the source of all good.
CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM, The Maxims of Marmaduke
If you wish to test a friend loan him money.
Money, like a running horse, should be kept--well-in-hand.
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