parsimony quotes

If I be evil intreated, or sent away with a flea in mine ear, let him look that Iwill rail onhimsoundly; nor foranhour or a day, whiles the injury is fresh in my memory; but in some elaborate polished poem, which I will leave to the world when I am dead, to be a living image to all ages of his beggarly parsimony and ignoble illiberality.

-Thomas Nashe
  Pierce Penniless, His Supplication to the Devil, 'An Invective Against Enemies of Poetry'.

Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigalityand misconduct. By what a frugal man annually saves he not onlyaffords maintenance to an additional number of productive hands†but†he establishes as it were a perpetual fund for the maintenance of an equal number in all times to come.

- Adam Smith
  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of theWealth of Nations, bk.2, ch.3.