Thought for Monday, Mar 22, 2010

Golden Oldie

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you
have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy
to human happiness; it certainly destroys
liberty, and it makes some virtues
impracticable, and others extremely
difficult.

ATTRIBUTION:
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), British
author, lexicographer. Letter, December
7, 1782, to James Boswell. Quoted in
James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson
(1791).