The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.