Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
Nature's bank-dividends.
No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.
The suspicious parent makes an artful child.
It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.
Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.