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Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures. He who sent forth his apostles without gold had not need of gold to form his Church. The Church possesses gold, not to hoard, but to scatter abroad and come to the aid of the unfortunate.

Gold all is not that doth golden seem.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

The gods, as they are beneficent, if they find anyone who is healthy and whole and unscarred by vice, will send him away, surely, after crowning him, not with golden crowns, but with all sorts of blessings.

Relics are treasured as something close to the divine.

There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it's good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!