The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.

And who are the greater criminals--those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?

A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.

The miser is as much in want of that which he has, as of that which he has not.