Monthly Archives: July 2005

“The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep.”–Taylor. ONE of the most common and most serious leaks in the purse of the average person is money spent on friends, distant relatives or … Continue reading →

“And all may do what has by man been done.”– Young. IT IS sometimes interesting to check up on the other fellow and see what he has done which we have not done and then to decide whether it was … Continue reading →

“There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything else–a friend to everybody is often a friend to no­body; or else, in his simplicity, he robs his family to help strangers, and so becomes brother to a beggar.”–Spurgeon. NOT long ago … Continue reading →

“The world abhors closeness, and all but admires extravagance; yet a slack hand shows weakness, and a tight hand strength.”–Buxton. ALMOST every European writer who has ever visited America has gone back home and written as his first impression received … Continue reading →

“A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner; neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify men for usefulness and happiness.”–Burton. PROSPERITY often warps the judgment of the individual and all but destroys discrimination. This is usually made apparent in his … Continue reading →

“A man can get anything he wants providing he wants it hard enough and is willing to pay the price.” SOME men desire wealth and some desire merely peace and comfort and a reasonable degree of financial independence. Some men … Continue reading →

“The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.” –Taylor. TAYLOR lived several hundred years ago when the accumulation of wealth was a slow and laborious process. Were he … Continue reading →

“Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, that slaves how e’er contented never know.”–Cowper. INDEPENDENCE in the full sense of the word means absolute freedom. “No man is free, who is not master of himself” and no man is master … Continue reading →

“Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.”–Junius. HE measure of a man’s freedom and the measure of his independence depends greatly upon the … Continue reading →

“The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.”–Tupper. THE most handsomely dressed man and the most magnificently gowned woman are garbed within certain limits of conven­tionality. The most beautiful house or the handsomest automobile are never of … Continue reading →