We must still do the sowing and reaping.
The realities of to-day surpass the ideals of yesterday.—Frothingham.
The person who considers everything will never decide on anything.—Italian.
We learn, also, that one may achieve a full measure of success without accumulating much money, and may accumulate much money without achieving success. “Mere wealth is no more success than fools’ gold is real gold,” says one of our wise essayists. “Collaterals do not take the place of character. A man obtains thousands or millions of dollars by legal or illegal thieving, and society, instead of sending him to prison, receives him in its parlors. Men bow low when he passes, as in the fable the people bowed to the golden idols that were strapped on the back of a donkey, who was ass enough to swell with pride in the thought that all this reverence was for him. The man who puts his trust in gold and deposits his heart in the bank, and thinks money means success, is like the starving traveler in the desert, who, seeing a bag in the distance, found in it, instead of food which he sought, nothing but gold, and flung it from him in disappointment, and died for want of something that could save his life. The soul will starve if gold alone administers to its needs. Better to be a man than merely a millionaire. Better to have a head and heart than merely houses and lands.”
Nobody can carry three watermelons under one arm.—Spanish.
It is along such lines of thinking that I offer these thoughts
ON GETTING RICH
When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.—Plato.
Get riches, my boy! Grow as rich as you can;
’Tis the laudable aim of each diligent man