Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it's good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
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.
If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.
When I was little, I used to adore gold. It was something special.
Gold is a great thing to sew into your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but I think civilized people don't buy gold, they invest in productive businesses.
Gold looks good on my skin, and gold looks good on black people, I think.
Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.
Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.