Charity begins at home: And spreads itself abroad ; but covetousness begins with self, and ends with pelf.
Contrasts generous charity with self-serving greed.
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Charity gives itself rich; covetousness hoards itself poor.
— German Proverb
Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind.…
— Samuel Johnson
The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as wealth to possess him.
— Dr. Bacon
In 1918, near the end of the First World War, an American bishop said that it was his judgment that we were near the end…
The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them but to have them.
— Tillotson
Covetous men must be the sport of Satan, for their grasping avarice neither lets them enjoy life nor escape from the sec…
— Charles Spurgeon
