Living at the cost of others is not only dishonesty, but it is untruthfulness in deed, as lying is in word.

The proverb of George Herbert, that "debtors are liars," is justified by experience.
Shaftesbury somewhere says that a restlessness to have something which we have not, and to be something which we are not, is the root of all immorality.

[1514] No reliance is to be placed on the saying--a very dangerous one--of Mirabeau, that "LA PETITE MORALE ETAIT L'ENNEMIE DE LA GRANDE." On the contrary, strict adherence to even the smallest details of morality is the foundation of all manly and noble character.
The honourable man is frugal of his means, and pays his way honestly.

He does not seek to pass himself off as richer than he is, or, by running into debt, open an account with ruin.

As that man is not poor whose means are small, but whose desires are uncontrolled, so that man is rich whose means are more than sufficient for his wants.