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Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ruin these baneful passions have involved human societies in all ages when they have been let loose and suffered to rage uncontrolled - There is no restraint like the pervading eye of the virtuous citizens.

Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.

The character of a people may be ruined by charity.

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.