Francis Bacon Quote

Many have made witty invectives against usury. They say that it is a pity the devil should have God's part, which is the tithe; that the usurer is the greatest Sabbath-breaker, because his plough goeth every Sunday.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)


Many have made witty invectives against usury. They say that it is a pity the devil should have God's part, which is the tithe; that the usurer is...

Many have made witty invectives against usury. They say that it is a pity the devil should have God's part, which is the tithe; that the usurer is...

Many have made witty invectives against usury. They say that it is a pity the devil should have God's part, which is the tithe; that the usurer is...

Many have made witty invectives against usury. They say that it is a pity the devil should have God's part, which is the tithe; that the usurer is...