Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.
Edmund BurkeMere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
Edmund BurkeUnsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners, and of utterly disqualifying a man for the satisfactions and duties of life. Men must be taken as they are, and we neither make them or ourselves better by flying from or quarreling with them.
Edmund Burke