Albeit that mortal folk are marvellously separated both by land and water, ‥ yet are they and their acts (done peradventure by the space of a thousand years), compacted together by the Historiographer, as it were the deeds of one self-same city, and in one man's life. Wherefore I say that History may well be called a Divine Providence. ..… It is the keeper of such things as have been virtuously done, and the witness of evil deeds. By the benefit of History, all noble, high, and virtuous acts be immortal.

Mere Parsimony is not Economy, It is separable in theory from it; and, in fact, it may, or it may not, be a part of Economy, according to circumstances. Expence, and great expence, may be an essential part in true Economy. ..… Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no power of combination, no comparison, no judgement. Mere instinct, and that not an instinct of the noblest kind, may produce this false economy in perfection. The other Economy has larger views. It demands a discriminating judgement, and a firm and sagacious mind.