Another point of economy is to look for seed of the same kind as you sow, and not to hope to buy one kind with another kind. Friendship buys friendship; justice, justice; military merit, military success... Yet there is commonly a confusion of expectations on these points. Hot spur lives for the moment, praises himself for it, and despises Furlong, that he does not. Hot spur of course is poor, and Furlong is a good provider. The odd circumstance is that Hot spur thinks it is a superiority in himself, this improvidence, which ought to be rewarded with Furlong's lands.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

IMPROVIDENCE The other lives I might have led All now might as well behead. Survived by no one. Barren, without issue of any sort:This withered bud, failed In art and love. With no time left To change my course. But time enough for infinite remorse.

— John Tottenham