Spend not when you must save,
Spare not when you must spend.
—Italian.
516
Every man must educate himself. His books and teacher are but helps; the work is his.
—Webster.
516a
Scottish Education. "A boy was compelled by the poverty of his parents to leave school and take temporary work as an assistant to Lady Abercombie's gardener. When his services were no longer required, the lady gave him a guinea and said, 'Well, Jack, how are you going to spend your guinea?' 'Oh my lady,' he replied, 'I've just made up my mind to tak' a quarter o' Greek, for I hadna got beyond Latin when I left school."
—Dr. J. Herr.
517
Nearly all things are difficult before they are easy.