Perhaps, at this time, Benjamin laid the foundation for that economy which distinguished him in later life, and about which he often wrote. Among his wise sayings, in the height of his influence and fame, were the following: "If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting." "What maintains one vice would bring up two children." "Many a little makes a mickle." "A small leak will sink a ship." "At a great penny worth pause awhile." "Silks and satins, scarlets and velvets, put out the kitchen fire." "Always taking out of the meal-tub, and never putting in, soon comes to the bottom." "It is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel." "A penny saved is a penny earned." "A penny saved is two-pence clear." "A pin a day is a groat a year." "He that wastes idly a groat's worth of his time per day, one day with another, wastes the privilege of using one hundred pounds each day." "In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, _industry_ and _frugality_; that is, waste neither _time_ nor _money_, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them every thing. He that gets all he can honestly, and saves all he gets (necessary expenses excepted), will certainly become _rich_--if that Being who governs the world, to whom all should look for a blessing on their honest endeavors, doth not, in his wise providence, otherwise determine." The reader may desire to know just how Franklin himself speaks of the "vegetable diet" experiment in his "Autobiography"; so we quote it here: