William Cobbett Quote

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to [money management]; for.... want of attention to pecuniary matters... has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

Advice to Young Men, and, incidentally, to Young Women, in the middle and higher ranks of life. In a series of letters, etc (ed. 1829)