To save money is the most important thing in life.

Always a friend or a comrade may fail you, and be the first to desert you in a time of adversity; but never will a KOPECK fail you, whatever may be your plight.

Nothing in the world cannot be done, cannot be attained, with the aid of money." These injunctions given, the father embraced his son, and set forth on his return; and though the son never again beheld his parent, the latter's words and precepts sank deep into the little Chichikov's soul.
The next day young Pavlushka made his first attendance at school.

But no special aptitude in any branch of learning did he display.

Rather, his distinguishing characteristics were diligence and neatness.