Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets.

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral co…

Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous m…

The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

Only a fool thinks price and value are the same.