Live within your means, but don’t borrow money to do it.
Spend your money when you are young, if you want to spend your old age in the poor house.
Put a strong proviso in your deed before you turn it over to your children, if you expect to buy your own tobacco.
The boy who criticizes his father’s depleted finances on account of hardships and honest failures, should be bodily removed into the open air with the same amount of clothes he had when he was born and let the thermometer show forty degrees below zero.
A court or jury that will convict a man for stealing a ten cent soup bone and acquit the man who made thousands by going into bankruptcy ought to have a steady stream of hot tar running down their aesophagus.