“Cotton has well said of covetous worms of the earth, “After hypocrites, the greatest dupes the devil has are those who exhaust an anxious existence in the disappointments and vexations of business, and live miserably and meanly, only to die magnificently and rich. For, like the hypocrites, the only disinterested action these men can accuse themselves of is, that of serving the devil without receiving his wages: he who stands every day of his life behind a counter, until he drops from it into the grave, may negotiate many very profitable bargains; but he has made a single bad one, so bad indeed, that it counter balances all the rest; for the empty foolery of dying rich, he has paid down his health, his happiness, and his integrity.” Charles Spurgeon quoting John Cotton