No lessons are so impressive as those our mistakes teach us.

1378

Young heads are giddy, and young hearts are warm,
And make mistakes for manhood to reform.

--_Young._

1379

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to
copy after.

--_Goldsmith._

1380

MODERATION.

He that holds fast the golden mean,
And lives contentedly between
The little and the great,
Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,
Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door.

--_Cowper._

1381

THE CHARM OF MODULATION.

'Tis not enough the voice be sound and clear,
'Tis modulation that must charm the ear.

1382

The abundance of money ruins youth.

1383

I almost grow to believe there is a sort of curse on money which is not
earned, even when it is bestowed by father on son or daughter. It
cripples individual development, and I think only when it is earned is
it blest.

1384

A' complain o' want o' siller (money): nane o' want o' sense.

--_Scotch._

1385

Your money cannot change your blood,
Although you strut as though it could.

1386

A MONEY-LENDER.

He serves you in the present tense;
He lends you in the conditional mood;
Keeps you in the subjunctive;
And is apt to ruin you in the future!

--_Addison._

1387

The love of money is the root of much devotion.

1388

A man's money is either his master or his slave.

1389

Money doesn't make happiness. There is many a heart-ache behind plenty
of money!

--_Nettie S. Murphy._

1390

He who finds no money in his own purse, is still less likely to find it
in that of others.

1391

Agassiz said, "I have no time to waste in making money. Life is not
sufficiently long to enable a man to get rich and do his duty to his
fellow man at the same time."

1392

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

1393

THE POWER OF MONEY.

Money will purchase occupation;
It will purchase all the conveniences of life;
It will purchase variety of company;
It will purchase all sorts of entertainments;
It can change men's manners;