Schouppe, Sodality Director's Manual

Schouppe, Sodality Director's Manual, 1882, pp. 154–155

One is avaricious when he makes temporal possessions the principal end of his existence here below.
One is avaricious when he seeks riches for an end which is not Christian nor subordinate to salvation.
One is avaricious when he is too much taken up with temporal things, when he lacks confidence in God to obtain them and seeks them at the expense of his soul's salvation.
One is avaricious when he does nothing but accumulate riches upon riches and is never satisfied.
One is avaricious when he gives nothing to the poor, on pretext that he has nothing to spare, and at the same time is unwilling to reduce his expenses to a just limit.
One is avaricious when he presses his debtors too severely.
One is avaricious when he is willing to acquire money unjustly, or by any means contrary to conscience and religion.
One is avaricious when, because of a wrong or a pecuniary loss, he hates his neighbor, abandons himself to despair, or murmurs against Providence.
Finally, one is avaricious when he esteems too highly the goods of this life and prefers them to eternal treasures, contrary to the teaching of our Saviour, who tells us: Lay up to yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither the rust nor moth doth consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal (Matt. vi. 20).