If it is not in the Bible, it is nowhere but in the heart of the fool.
Throw aside this fancy.

See what you want, and spend upon that; distinguish what you do not care about, and spend nothing upon that.
There are not many people who can differentiate wines above a certain and that not at all a high price.

Are you sure you are one of these?
Are you sure you prefer cigars at sixpence each to pipes at some fraction of a farthing?
Are you sure you wish to keep a gig?
Do you care about where you sleep, or are you not as much at your ease in a cheap lodging as in an Elizabethan manor-house?
Do you enjoy fine clothes?
It is not possible to answer these questions without a trial; and there is nothing more obvious to my mind, than that a man who has not experienced some ups and downs, and been forced to live more cheaply than in his father's house, has still his education to begin.

Let the experiment be made, and he will find to his surprise that he has been eating beyond his appetite up to that hour; that the cheap lodging, the cheap tobacco, the rough country clothes, the plain table, have not only no power to damp his spirits, but perhaps give him as keen pleasure in the using as the dainties that he took, betwixt sleep and waking, in his former callous and somnambulous submission to wealth.
The true Bohemian, a creature lost to view under the imaginary Bohemians of literature, is exactly described by such a principle of life.

The Bohemian of the novel, who drinks more than is good for him and prefers anything to work, and wears strange clothes, is for the most part a respectable Bohemian, respectable in disrespectability, living for the outside, and an adventurer.