Money is a good servant, but a dangerous master.—Bouhours.
By doing good with his money, a man as it were stamps the image of God upon it, and makes it pass current for the merchandise of heaven.—Rutledge.
To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.—Colton.
The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.—Carlyle.
Morality.—In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say, Is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best answered by asking ourselves another: Is there any harm in letting it alone?—Colton.
To give a man a full knowledge of true morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.—Locke.
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.—Washington.
Ten men have failed from defect in morals where one has failed from defect in intellect.—Horace Mann.
Socrates taught that true felicity is not to be derived from external possessions, but from wisdom, which consists in the knowledge and practice of virtue; that the cultivation of virtuous manners is necessarily attended with pleasure as well as profit; that the honest man alone is happy; and that it is absurd to attempt to separate things which are in nature so closely united as virtue and interest.—Enfield.
The moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. For every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last.—Froude.