When pride asked for dress and show, the youth rebuked his vanity.

When companions scoffed at the young merchant as a niggard he subdued his sensitiveness and inured himself to rigid economy.

When increasing wealth began to lend influence, and society urged him to give his evenings to gayety, the young merchant denied the social instinct and gave his long winter evenings to broadening his knowledge and culture.

Having lost the lower good, at last the time came when the American merchant and philanthropist had saved for himself universal fame.

Having lost ease and self-indulgence during the first half of his life, he saved the higher ease and comfort for the second period of his career.
Similarly of the young men in Parliament who to-day have charge of the destinies of the English empire, it may be said that they have saved their lives, because the fathers lost theirs.