Avoid a lie as you would the gates of hell. Some there are who are callous as to this. Some there are who, in stooping to mercantile dishonor and business in driving the immoral bargain, think they have done a clever action. Things are often called by their wrong names. Evil is called good and good evil.
Darkness is put for light and light for darkness.
You may be prosperous in your own eyes. You may have realized an envied fortune. You may have your carriage, and plate, and servants, and pageantry. But better the shielding and the crust of bread with a good conscience, than the stately dwelling or palace without it. Better than the marble mausoleum which gilds and smothers tales of heartless villainy and fraud.