Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhil...l. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
out of hardship bred, Spirits of power and beauty and delight... Have ever on such frugal pastures fed And loved to course with tempests through the night.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, ...and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people? Still one thing more ... Ma wise and frugal government, which sha...ll restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from labor the bread it has earned.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »