How to constitute oneself a man?
Nothing harder, if one knows not how to _will_ it; nothing easier, if one wills it."-- _Alexandre Dumas_.
Competence and comfort lie within the reach of most people, were they to take the adequate means to secure and enjoy them.

Men who are paid good wages might also become capitalists, and take their fair share in the improvement and well-being of the world.

But it is only by the exercise of labour, energy, honesty, and thrift, that they can advance their own position or that of their class.
Society at present suffers far more from waste of money than from want of money.

It is easier to make money than to know how to spend it.

It is not what a man gets that constitutes his wealth, but his manner of spending and economizing.