Because a man has shop to mind
In time and place, since flesh must live,
Needs spirit lack all life behind,
All stray thoughts, fancies fugitive,
All loves except what trade can give?
—Browning.
There is no beautifier in form or behavior like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us.
—Emerson.
Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
—Benjamin Franklin.