I am moneys medium. It passes through me- taxes, insurance, mortgage, child support, rent, legal fees. All this dignified blundering costs plenty.

A man often pays dear for a small frugality.

I have noticed that it is the easy-going ones among us who have the best time; in this climate, at the rate a stove eats wood, if a man were to grow too thrifty or forehanded he'd never be able to crawl out from under his woodpile.

Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.

A penny saved is a penny to squander.

Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection.

Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy.

Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annualincome twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.

Economy, in the estimation of common minds, often means the absence of all taste and comfort.