Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise—the head and heart are stuffed with goods. Like those houses in the lower streets of cities which were once family dwellings, but are now used for commercial purposes, there are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship; but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filled with material things.
CHAPTER XII.
WEALTH IN ECONOMY.
Economy is half the battle of life.—SPURGEON.
Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty and ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.—DR. JOHNSON.
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants 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 multiply.—GOETHE.
No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you have.—LATIN PROVERB.