The devil is always buying our souls of us. [ Proverb ]

Buying and selling is but winning and losing. [ Proverb ]

Many have been ruined by buying good pennyworths. [ Proverb ]

In choosing a wife and buying a sword we ought not to trust another. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate. [ Fielding ]

There is one penny saved in four, between buying in thy necessity, and when the markets and seasons are fittest for it. [ Lord Burleigh ]

It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage of art is not that which seeks for the pleasures of sentiment in a vague ideality, nor for beauty of form in a marble image, but that which educates your children into living heroes, and binds down the flights and the fondnesses of the heart into practical duty and faithful devotion. [ Ruskin ]