there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.
Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.
The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he who will not economize will have to agonize.
Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness; the last without the first begets prodigality.