All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful

Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.

I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.

Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty

You have two choices, write about something of significance or do something someone wants to write about.

He that won't be counseled can't be helped.

A man is not completely born until he is dead.