Economy Comfort

Famous quotes containing the words economy and/or comfort:

“The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get “a good job,” but to perform well a certain work; and, even in a pecuniary sense, it would be economy for a town to pay its laborers so well that they would not feel that they were working for low ends, as for a livelihood merely, but for scientific, or even moral ends. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Poor comfort all comfort: once what the mouse had spared
Was enough, was delight, there where the heart was at home;”
—Ruth Pitter (b. 1897)