The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
To reclaim the prodigal is well, but to save him from ever being a prodigal is better.
Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease.
You may be more prodigal of time than of money.
A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.
If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous.
O! what a prodigal have I been of that most valuable of all possessions Time!