CHAPTER XVIII.
SAVE.
If you want to test a young man and ascertain whether nature made him for a king or a subject, give him a thousand dollars and see what he will do with it.

If he is born to conquer and command, he will put it quietly away till he is ready to use it as opportunity offers.

If he is born to serve, he will immediately begin to spend it in gratifying his ruling propensity.
-- PARTON.
The man who builds, and lacks wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.
-- YOUNG.
Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries.
For age and want save while you may: No morning sun lasts a whole day.
-- FRANKLIN.
Whatever be your talents, whatever be your prospects, never speculate away on a chance of a palace that which you may need as a provision against the workhouse.
-- BULWER.
"What do you do with all these books ?" "Oh, that library is my 'one cigar a day,'" was the response.

"What do you mean ?" "Mean! Just this: when you bothered me so about being a man, and learning to smoke, I'd just been reading about a young fellow who bought books with money that others would have spent in smoke, and I thought I'd try and do the same.

You remember, I said I should allow myself one cigar a day." "Yes." "Well, I never smoked.