3368. The practice of economy is as necessary in the expenditure of time as of money. They say that if "we take care of the pence, the pounds will take care of themselves." So, if we take care of the minutes, the days will take care of themselves.
3669. Away, then, with your expensive follies, and you will not then have so much cause to complain of hard times, heavy taxes, and chargeable families.
3370. Many, for the sake of finery on the back, have gone with a hungry stomach, and half starved their families.
3371. The acquisition of wealth demands as much self-denial, and as many sacrifices of present gratification, as the practice of virtue itself.
3372. Vice and poverty proceed, in some degree, from the same sources, namely—the disposition to sacrifice the future to the present; the inability to forego a small present pleasure for great future advantages.