How they made Money and won Renown: A CURIOUS COLLECTION OF RICH MEN'S MOTTOES AND GREAT MEN'S WATCHWORDS; THEIR FINANCIAL TESTS AND SECRETS; THEIR FAVOURITE SAYINGS AND GUIDING RULES WITH DROLL AND PITHY REMARKS ON THE CONDUCT OF LIFE, MOSTLY TAKEN DOWN IN THEIR OWN WORDS: TO WHICH ARE ADDED Many New and Authentic Sayings of "Poor Richard," WITH SUNDRY PIECES OF USEFUL ADVICE TO PERSONS ENTERING THE WORLD, AND PRACTICAL HINTS FOR THOSE FORTUNATE MEN: HOW THEY MADE MONEY AND WON RENOWN The Advantages of Commencing Without a Shilling. Practical industry, wisely and vigorously applied, always produces its due effects. It carries a man onward, brings out his individual character, and stimulates the action of others. All may not rise equally, yet each, on the whole, very much according to his deserts. "Though all cannot live on the piazza," as the Tuscan proverb has it, "Every one may feel the Sun." On the whole, it is not good that human nature should have the road of life made too easy. Better to be under the necessity of working hard and faring meanly, than to have everything done ready to our hand, and a pillow of down to repose upon. Indeed, to start in life with comparatively small means, seems so necessary as a stimulus to work, that it may almost be set down as one of the conditions essential to success in life. Hence, an eminent judge, when asked what contributed most to success at the bar, replied, "Some succeed by great talent, some by high connexions, some by miracle, but the majority by commencing without a shilling." B |