It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants. — William Cobbett. English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist (1763–1835)
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.