The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which are easily to be had for money, and which, when obtained, are as much worse than worthless as a harlot's love is worse than none.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

I have not skillFrom such a sharp and waspish word as "No"To pluck the sting.

If you know how a man deals with his money, how he gets it, spends it, keeps it, shares it, you know one of the most important things about him.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love.