Dr. Johnson once said, that " he who drinks beer, thinks beer " ;
and it is equally true that those who occupy themselves with
endless cares for small savings get " to think candle-ends " as
their reward. It has been justly doubted whether, emiong the
classes of men who, whether they are economical or not, are
sure never to go to bed hungry, there is anything in the
accumulation of money to compensate for the deterioration of
mind and feeling which is almost sure to accompany the pur-
suit of so trumpery an end as screwing fourpence a week out
of the butter bill. But economy is a wholly different thing
^m penuriousness ; so diiferent, indeed, that it is only the

economical man who can afford to be Hberal, or even to live
with ease and magnanimity.
