Be ever active in the management of the economy, because the root of wealth is economic activity; inactivity brings material distress.
Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success, for learning; and proper spending, for wealth.
He who loses his money is forsaken by his friends, his wife, his servants, and his relations; yet when he regains his riches those who have forsaken him come back to him. Hence wealth is certainly the best of relations.
With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.
The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words: industry and frugality — that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
Be ever active in the management of the economy, because the root of wealth is economic activity; inactivity brings material distress.