Be frugal in your way of …

Be frugal in your way of living.I do not mean you should be either profuse or niggardly; for though you have little,if you husband it well,and lay it out on proper occasions,you will have many friends; but if,on the contrary,you have great riches,and make but a bad use of them,all the world will forsake you,and leave you to yourself.

The Arabian Nights` entertainment-revised edition by George Fyler Townsend