But the want of a business capacity, or inclination, is no reason at all why a journeyman mechanic should not save every cent he can." "What good will it do him?
He is bound to be a poor worker all his life, and why should he deny himself the few comforts he has as he goes along, in order to lay by a hundred or two dollars ?" "I am surprised to hear you ask such a question, Johnson.

But I will answer it by saying, that he should do it for the very reason that I save my money; that is, to enable him to educate his children well, to lighten his own and his wife's toil, when they grow older, and to be able to obtain for his family more of the comforts of life than they now enjoy." "Don't exactly see how all this is to be achieved.

Suppose he get together as much as five hundred dollars; and instead of risking it in business, he send his children to some expensive schools, hire help for his wife, and take some comfort as he goes along; how long do you suppose his five hundred dollars will last?
But two years, and then he must come down again and be ten times as unhappy, for it is a much easier matter to get up than to go down." "Pardon me, Johnson," replied his friend, "but I must say you are a very short-sighted mortal.

If you can't imagine any better mode of using your five hundred dollars after you have saved it, I don't blame you for not caring about making the attempt to do so.

But I can tell you a better way." "Well, let us hear it." "With your five hundred dollars, after you had saved it, you could buy yourself a snug little cottage, with an acre of ground around it.