When we recommend economy and prudence to our pupils, we must, at the same time, keep their hearts open to the pleasures of generosity; economy and prudence will put it in the power of the generous to give.
"The worth of everything
Is as much money as 'twill bring,"
will never be the venal maxim of those who understand the nature of philosophic prudence. The worth of money is to be estimated by the number of real pleasures which it can procure: there are many which are not to be bought by gold;[110] these will never lose their pre-eminent value with persons who have been educated both to reason and to feel.
Here lies the mutton eating king;
Whose promise none relied on;
Who never said a foolish thing,
And never did a wise one.
Epitaph on Charles 2d.
[97] V. Taste and Imagination.
[98] Darwin's Zoonomia.
[99] Chapter on Imagination.
[100] Charles VI.