Henry Home

“Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.”

“A man does but faintly relish that felicity which costs him nothing; happy they whom pain leads to pleasure.”

“We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.”

“A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body, without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.”