Mr. Corey, you will look far for a man of my kind at sixty pounds a year! I am not used to this poverty; I left a thrifty business in the Barbados to serve the Lord. I do not fathom it, why am I persecuted here? I cannot offer one proposition but there be a howling riot of argument. I have often wondered if the Devil be in it somewhere; I cannot understand you people otherwise.
– Arthur Miller
The Crucible, Act 1. Reverend Parris is very concerned with material wealth, as shown by this speech. But as well as being a man of greed, this passage tells us also that he suffers from the sin of pride.