“The superfluous riches which thou didst hoard and suffer to become rotten when thou shouldst have given them in alms to the poor, the superfluous garments which though didst possess and preferred to see eaten by moths rather than clothing the poor, and the gold and silver which thou didst choose to see lie in idleness rather than spend on food for the poor, all these things, I say, will bear testimony against thee in the Day of Judgement.” (Cf. James 5:1-3).
Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621) scholar and lecturer, as recounted by Jill Haak Adels in The Wisdom of the Saints (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987) 124.