"Buy what thou hast no need of..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.”

“Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.”

“Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.”

“Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves.”

“A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.”

“What maintains one vice would bring up two children.”

“Economy is half the battle in life, but it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well. Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.”

“Many have been ruined by buying good Pennyworths.”

“Whether government finances its added spending by increasing taxes, by borrowing, or by inflating the currency, the added spending will be offset by reduced private spending. Furthermore, private spending is generally more efficient than the government spending that would replace it because people act more carefully when they spend their own money than when they spend other people's money.”