If you want to get rich, study yourself and your own wants. You will find that millions have the same wants. The safest business is always connected with man's prime necessities. He must have clothing and dwelling; he must eat. He wants comforts, facilities of all kinds for pleasure, education, and culture. Any man who can supply a great want of humanity, improve any methods which men use, supply any demand of comfort, or contribute in any way to their well-being, can make a fortune.
"The golden opportunity
Is never offered twice; seize then the hour
When Fortune smiles and Duty points the way."
Why thus longing, thus forever sighing,
For the far-off, unattained and dim,
While the beautiful, all around thee lying
Offers up its low, perpetual hymn?
HARRIET WINSLOW.
CHAPTER VI
POSSIBILITIES IN SPARE MOMENTS
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.—FRANKLIN.
Eternity itself cannot restore the loss struck from the minute.—ANCIENT POET.
Periunt et imputantur,—the hours perish and are laid to our charge.—INSCRIPTION ON A DIAL AT OXFORD.
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.—SHAKESPEARE.