A man who has at length found out something important to do will not have to get a new suit to do it in. For him the old will do, lying dusty in the garret for an indefinite period. Old shoes will serve a hero longer than they have served his valet. Bare feet are the oldest of shoes, and he can make them do.
Only they who go to legislature and soirees, they must have new coats, coats to turn as often as the man turns in them.
Who ever saw his old shoes, his old coat, actually worn out, returned to their original elements, so that it was not a deed of charity to bestow them on some poorer boy, and by him to be bestowed on some poorer still, or shall we say on someone richer who can do with less? (1845)
