foot unentangled by sufferings, both
to exhort and to admonish him that is in difficulties.

--_Aeschylus._

502

If you take things easy when you ought to be doing your best work, you
will probably have to keep hard at work when you might be taking it
easy.

503

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

--_From the German._

504

He that eats longest lives longest.

505

Half of what we eat is sufficient to enable us to live, and the other
half that we eat enables the doctors to live.

--_Dr. Osler._

506

Economy is the easy chair of old age.

507

He that will not economize may some day have to agonize.

--_Confucius._

508

Economy is no disgrace; it is better living on a little, than living
beyond your means.

509

In abundance prepare for scarcity.

--_Mencius._

510

Lay up something for a rainy day; it may be needed some day.

511

Economy is something like a savings-bank, into which we drop pennies and
get dollars in return.

--_H. W. Shaw._

512

Take care to be an economist in prosperity: there is no fear of your
being one in adversity.

--_Zimmerman._

513

For age and want, save while you may,
No morning sun lasts a whole day.

514

Economy is too late at the bottom of the purse.

515

Spend not when you must save,
Spare not when you must spend.

--_Italian._

516

Every man must educate himself. His books and teacher are but helps; the
work is his.

--_Webster._

516a

Scottish Education. "A boy was compelled by the poverty of his parents
to leave school and take temporary work as an assistant to Lady
Abercombie's gardener. When his services were no longer required, the
lady gave him a guinea and said, 'Well, Jack, how are you going to spend
your guinea?' 'Oh my lady,' he replied, 'I've just made up my mind to
tak' a quarter o' Greek, for I hadna got beyond Latin when I left
school."

--_Dr. J. Herr._

517

Nearly all things are difficult before