Part 24 (1/2)
Economy is half the battle of life--SPURGEON
Econority, of liberty and ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health--DR JOHNSON
Can anything be so elegant as to have feants and to serve them one's self?
As much wisdom can be expended on a private economy as on an empire--EMERSON
Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will ain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you have--LATIN PROVERB
Beware of little extravagances: a so to bed supperless than rise with debts--GERMAN PROVERB
Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of--H W SHAW
Sense can support herself handsohteen pence a day; but for phantasy, planets and solar systems will not suffice--MACAULAY
Econoainst this consuers it out; but the disease is incurable--SHAKESPEARE
Whatever be your talents, whatever be your prospects, never speculate away on the chance of a palace that which you ainst the workhouse--BULWER
Not for to hide it in a hedge, Nor for a train attendant, But for the glorious privilege Of being independent
BURNS
”We shan't get much here,” whispered a lady to her companion, as John Murray blew out one of the two candles by whose light he had been writing when they asked him to contribute to soave one hundred dollars ”Mr Murray, I areeably surprised,” said the lady quoted; ”I did not expect to get a cent from you” The old Quaker asked the reason for her opinion; and, when told, said, ”That, ladies, is the reason I am able to let you have the hundred dollars It is by practicing economy that I save up h to talk by”
[Illustration: ALEXANDER HAMILTON]
”The Moses of Colonial Finance”
”Poverty is a condition which no man should accept, unless it is forced upon him as an inexorable necessity or as the alternative of dishonor”
”Comfort and independence abide with those who can postpone their desires”
E anecdote: ”An opulent merchant in Boston was called on by a friend in behalf of a charity At that ti whole wafers instead of halves; his friend thought the circu to the appeal, the merchant subscribed five hundred dollars
The applicant expressed his astonishment that any person as so particular about half a wafer should present five hundred dollars to a charity; but theto such little things, that I have now soreat fortune?” asked a friend of Lareat fortune, easily,” was the reply, ”my small one, by dint of exertion”
Four years froland faro he was admitted as a partner in the fir , wealth, nor influence, was that he saved his e of twenty and lay by twenty-six cents every working day, investing at seven per cent compound interest, he will have thirty-two thousand dollars when he is seventy years old
Twenty cents a day is no unusual expenditure for beer or cigars, yet in fifty years it would easily a of one dollar a week froive him one thousand dollars for each of the last ten of the allotted years of life ”Whatup two children”