CHAPTER II.
HABITS OF THRIFT.
"Die Hauptsache ist dass man lerne sich selbst zu beherrschen." [The great matter is to learn to rule oneself.]--_Goethe_.
"Most men work for the present, a few for the future.

The wise work for both--for the future in the present, and for the present in the future."-- _Guesses at Truth_.
"The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself....

If you once learn to get the whip-hand of yourself, that is the best educator.
Prove to me that you can control yourself, and I'll say you're an educated man; and without this, all other education is good for next to nothing."-- _Mrs.Oliphant_.
"All the world cries, 'Where is the man who will save us?
We want a man! Don't look so far for this man.

You have him at hand.

This man--it is you, it is I, it is each one of us! ...