Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself. - William Cobbett
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants. - William Cobbett
To be poor and dependent is very nearly an impossibility. - William Cobbett