"The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains."

Next Quote

The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just as the outward eye is disciplined to compare, adjust, estimate, measure, the objects reflected on the back of its retina.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton