A purchase made at the lowest price will be dear, if it be a superfluity.

Little expenses lead to great.

Buying things that are not wanted, soon accustoms us to prodigality in other respects.
Cicero said, "Not to have a mania for buying, is to possess a revenue." Many are carried away by the habit of bargain-buying.

"Here is something wonderfully cheap: let us buy it." "Have you any use for it ?" "No, not at present; but it is sure to come in useful, some time." Fashion runs in this habit of buying.

Some buy old china--as much as will furnish a china-shop.