One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it.

-Dryden,John
  Of Ben  Jonson.  An Essay of Dramatic Poesy,'Shakespeare and Ben  Jonson Compared'.

Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigalityand misconduct. By what a frugal man annually saves he not onlyaffords maintenance to an additional number of productive hands†but†he establishes as it were a perpetual fund for the maintenance of an equal number in all times to come.

-Smith, Adam
  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of theWealth of Nations, bk.2, ch.3.